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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: RE: Why attack Christianity?
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Date: Tue, 27-Mar-84 01:12:43 EST
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A quick response to one point in a Jon White article in net.flame (White's
comments indented):

> I don't believe there is enough historical evidence to establish that
> Christ ever really existed...

Remember, not only the Bible speaks of Jesus.  During the first century A.D.
or thereabouts, there lived a Jewish historian whose Romanized name was
Flavius Josephus.  Alas, I have not read his writings; but I recall seeing
quotes from them, or at least references to them, wherein it was indicated
that Josephus also wrote about Jesus, in a rather dry, historical manner,
without religious overtones.  No matter what you think of him, I'd say that
there's good evidence that an unusual man, whose similarly Romanized name
was Jesus, lived in Palestine in the time of the first Emperors.

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-- Jeff Sargent
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