I said:
> >False. There is not a *SINGLE* non-Biblical witness from whom we
> >have an independent account.
>
> 1. Cornelius Tacitus (born A.D. 52-54). He was a Roman Historian. He
> wrote ". . . Christus, the founder of the name, was put to death by Pointius
> Pilate . . ."
Who was not an eyewitness. Jesus died no later than 30 A.D., more than 20 years before Tacitus was born. His words are heresay, nothing more.
> 2. Julius Africanus states: "Thallus, in the third book of his histories,
> explains away this darkness as an eclipse of the sun -- unreasonably, as it
> seems to me (unreasonably, of course, because a solar eclipse could not take
> place at the time of the full moon, and it was at the season of the Paschal
> full moon that Christ died)." (The Thallus account was written in 52 A.D.
> while the Africanus account was in 221 A.D.)
We have no record of the writings of Thallus. They simply do not exist today and we have no way of knowing what was in them.
> Even the Jewish Talmud speaks about Christ and his crucifixion.
It also says that Mary was raped by a Roman centurion named Panther. Funny, you don't take that claim seriously, do you?
> I am done with this discussion. It obviously is unproductive. You have
> your mind made up and I have mine made up.
We deal with reality and you are firmly hiding in your religious fantasies. Good riddance to you.
-Brian