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1st & 2nd Century Skeptics Of Christianity

Admit Jesus Was Real

One may be confused by the headline, but it is true. Consider in A.D. 115 a Roman skeptic named Tacitus clearly unsympathetic to Christianity stated:

“Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures of a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus [Christ] ,from whom the name had its origin suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontus Pilate… " Tacitus, Annals 15.44.

Furthermore, a Jewish skeptic and Pharisee named Josephus also said:

“About this time there lived Jesus…when Pilate upon hearing Him, accused by men of the highest standing among us [Pharisees], had condemned him to be crucified, those who had in the first place come to love him did not give up their affection for him… Josephus,Antiquities18.63-64

Josephus wrote this in his historical book, which is dated at being completed in about A.D. 93.

Today there are skeptics of a different sort. Some say Jesus never lived & some say Jesus never died. We need to be careful to weigh the good historical evidence in light of the Bible. The Bible does not contradict itself and teaches Jesus lived, died, and arose (Mt.26-28).

And even if one were just to look at the legitimate historians such as Josephus and Tacitus, one can see that He was really walking on earth in the 1st century.

If 1st & 2nd Century people believed he was real, and centuries later formed a calendar system after His death (B.C.-A.D), logic must say we go to the source, and not the skeptic J.R. Rosado