Christians claim
Jesus was crucified and raised on the third day. They go as far as saying they
have historical evidence for this? What
ironic about their claim is, Christians are basing their evidence of contemporary
source's which originally stems from the same book which was written much after
the "supposed crucifixion"
what do we mean by that? Well, the first source would be the gospel of
Mark and the writings of Paul. Any other writings regarding the crucifixion was
taken from those first books.
Mark's writing was
borrowed by Luke and Matthew. John on the other used all three books prior to
his writing. Mark's source would be Q. so in other words we have no first hand
eye witness evidence for the crucifixion or resurrection.
Christians say many
people witnessed the crucifixion as mentioned in all for gospels, but this
argument is weak since we have no written sources by any of those numerous eye
witnesses? Now Christians would defend this idea by saying, the people who were
present were uneducated peasants who did not know how to write. They were local
village people they had no reason to document this. And for once we can agree
that’s true, but what about the Romans and Jewish rabbis, scribes, pharisees,
sadducees? They were learned men of
their time. Those Jewish rabbis were well equipped in reading and writing, how
comes they never made mention of Jesus being put on trial and crucified and
taken down within hours, without having his legs broken? Or the darkening of
sky and the temple curtain torn after a massive earthquake?
In the nineteenth
century an eminent scholar, Rabbi Wise, searched the records of Pilate’s court,
still extant, for evidence of this trial. He found nothing. (Lloyd Graham,
Deceptions and Myths of the Bible, p. 343)
Here's where it gets
more interesting. All those so called
historians Christians bring as evidence, none have written that Jesus rose
after three days and was seen by his disciple?
In fact there is no 1st century historian who witnessed the crucifixion
or resurrection.
Below is a list of historians who existed during the first
century, where are there writings about Jesus?
Apollonius
Persius
Appian Petronius
Arrian
Phaedrus
Aulus
Gellius Philo-Judaeus
Columella
Phlegon
Damis Pliny the Elder
Dio
Chrysostom Pliny the Younger Dion
Pruseus Plutarch
Epictetus
Pompon Mela
Favorinus Ptolemy
Florus
Lucius Quintilian
Hermogones Quintius Curtius
Josephus
Seneca
Justus of
Tiberius Silius Italicus
Juvenal
Statius
Lucanus Suetonius
Lucian
Tacitus
Lysias Theon of Smyran
Martial
Valerius Flaccus
Paterculus Valerius Maximus
Pausanias
Not a
single historian made mention of Jesus being crucified or resurrecting? Though
crucifixion was a common method and writing that a criminal was crucified would
not shock the ordinary historian, no historian wrote about a man called Jesus resurrected.
This
raises a lot of problem for Christians.
a historian who wrote of Jesus
being crucified, doesn't mention anything of the same Jesus being resurrected?
What does that tell you?
