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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are no contemporary accounts of Jesus, just as there are no contemporary accounts of most illiterate, working class Jews (which is what  Jesus was as a carpenter's son) in the Roman Empire at that time.

There are accounts of the Roman rulers and Jews in the upper classes.  And you'd think there'd be accounts of the miracles Jesus performed, but there are not.

People hoped when the dead see scrolls were discovered in the 20th century that there would be something about Jesus there, because they date from the time of Jesus, but there was nothing.

But if you're a believing Christian, faith is what matters -- not fact.  Just have faith and Jesus is real to you, despite the lack of evidence.[/quote]

The Jewish historian Jospehus wrote about Jesus in the first century AD. [/quote]

Josephus wrote t the end of the first century -- and he didn't have much to say, when you exclude the part that was added centuries later.

Really,  religion is about faith, not facts.  why bother trying to make a case for the facts.  They are unimportant. Jesus was not a scientist or an historian. He is the Messiah - the son of God.

Religion is full of miracles, which historians ignore completely -- supernatural events are outside the purview of history.  History can only study what happens in the natural world -- things for which evidence can be gathered.

People believed in Christianity for centuries before historians tried to validate the stories in the bible.  When they couldn't, it didn't affect the faith of true believers.[/quote]

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