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omg, u're persistent

Tacitus was writing decades after the supposed time of Jesus' death. His writing is therefor hearsay.

The same goes for Pliny the Younger.

The same goes for Josephus.

The same goes for every single historian that they speak about.

Now, I'm not saying that there was definitely not a man named Yeshua who went about preaching about God and such around that time, but for all the amazing things that Jesus is claimed to have done, why is it that nobody who was alive at the same time bothered to write about him?

I don't need Jesus to be nonexistent in order to support my opinion that he wasn't God Incarnate. But I find it oddly compelling that he didn't appear in the historical texts until decades after his supposed death. It sounds to me much more like an early form of historical fiction, where a very interesting person is created from thin air and then inserted into historical truths in order to flesh out the context and verisimilitude of the story.

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