Quote Originally Posted by Bonefish View Post
There is overwhelming evidence for the existence of Jesus in biblical history. Perhaps the greatest evidence that Jesus did exist is the fact that thousands of Christians in the first century A. D., including the twelve apostles, were willing to die as martyrs for Jesus. Why would anyone want to die for a lie? You have to also remember Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel in A.D. 70 and a lot of historical evidence were destroyed during this time. However, there is also evidence in secular history as well. The following are some of the historian writers who gave accounts of Jesus.

First-century Tacitus in “Annals 15.44” wrote about Jesus suffering under Pontius Pilate.

Flavius Josephus the famous Jewish historian in his “Antiquities” refers to Jesus.

Thallus writes about the crucifixion in the “Extant Writings, 18”.

Piny the Younger in “Letters 10.96” writes about Jesus’ followers.

The Babylonian Talmud in “Sanhedrin 43a” confirms Jesus’ crucifixion.
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Do any of these show evidence of the jesus of the new testament? or simply a man who was said to be the leader of the jews and was crucified for that.. Josephus was a jew and as such would not have been a believer of jesus the messiah..

There is no evidence that I have ever seen which lends any credence to jesus the messiah... To the contrary there seems to be a complete lack of anything historical which gives any evidence to that.. Does nobody find it strange that with all the things the new testament says happened surrounding this character that nothing was recorded that substantiates anything except him being am actual person who did not do anything extraordinary... History says he was nothing more than a man who was crucified by the romans...