On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 05:57:22AM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
On 12/27/2017 2:16 AM, juan wrote:
There is contemporary evidence of the existence of Pontius Pilate... There is *no contemporary* evidence for Jesus
You are a liar and a fool.
The contemporary evidence for Pontius Pilate is exactly the same as the contemporary evidence for Jesus. Josephus was there, and he mentions both of them.
Further, it is obvious that someone resembling Pontius Pilate had to exist, because the Roman Empire dominated that region, and it is obvious that prophets resembling Jesus the man had to exist, because the rabbis were in a holiness spiral,
For those (like me) who missed the memo, it means pretty much what it says - “turbocharged virtue signalling feedback loop”: https://greyenlightenment.com/holiness-spirals/
prophets would have condemned this, and would have been executed for condemning it.
Various prophets are listed as doing this, and dying because of it, Jesus and a couple of Christians being prominent on the list.