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The reasons why Paul did not provide details about the life of Jesus are: 1) He never had been an eyewitness of human Jesus. Your observation is extremely important to remember--the Pauline writer was never an eyewitness to Jesus [if he did live]. So, logically if Jesus did live then stories about ...

FWIW, Justin does mention The "Acts" of Pilate. About AD 150 Justin Martyr, addressing his Defence of Christianity to the Emperor Antoninius Pius, referred him to Pilate's report, which Justin supposed must be preserved in the imperial archives. 'But the words, "They pierced my hands...

"But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God" There's good reason to question the assumption that prophecies like this should be taken literally, ie, literal human generations If people can see "the kingdom ...

I wouldn't, however, say Paul would be a primary source for a human Jesus based on (i) what he says about a human Jesus is less than what I would expect But if you [non-specific you] discount the Gospel accounts, how do you set your expectations for how much Paul would say ? That's the lack of logi...

How on earth could Josephus write "called Christ"? Jews called people Christ [the anointed ] hundreds of years before the Jesus story was manufactured. King Saul was called Christ [the anointed] in the Septuagint. Jesus called Christ [the anointed] the brother of James is not NT Jesus of ...

to Hakeem, 3. In Justin's Memoirs of the Apostles the baby Jesus was born in a cave and laid in a manger. No evidence for that. In Dialogue 78:5, Justin mentioned gospels and gospel and a cave in Bethlehem, but not Memoirs of the apostles. And Ben told us the cave was imagined from Isaiah by Justin...

after the prophecy of Micah and after the history recorded in the Gospels by the disciples of Jesus, to have additional evidence from other sources, The evidence from other sources is additional of what shows in the gospels. Let's go through this one more time very slowly. 1. In gMatthew 2.11 After...

The cave story was in the Memoirs of the Apostles called Gospels because it is corroborated by Origen in Against Celsus 1.51. Origen's Against Celsus 1.51 With respect to the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, if any one desires, after the prophecy of Micah and after the history recorded in the Gospels by...

It makes no sense whatsoever for Pliny to have executed Christians if he did know what punishment they deserved and then to torture non-Christians who cursed Christ and worship the statue of Trajan to find out what Christians believed up to 25 years earlier. That's expeditive Roman justice on peopl...

If Pliny did not how to punish Christians then why did he execute those who confessed they were Christians? Pliny had already executed Christians before the letter was written. Well, Trajan was not a phone call away. Communications between Trajan and Pliny on his road trip would take weeks. So Plin...