kirk cameron
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jakeyj:
That isn't a rebuttal.
I could write a self-declared Accurate Historic Account of the Universe From the Beginning Right Up Til Yesterday and cram it with details and that wouldn't make it true either.
Josephus and Pliny the Younger are historical figures because there are both records of them from other sources as well as their own works in context. That you offer up two people who weren't alive at the time and victims of obvious forgery centuries later, as "chroniclers" of Jesus' so-called life, leads me to believe you haven't done much research of your own, you've just been told This Is The Truth by someone, probably a parent or charismatic pastor, so you take that as gospel.
And are you really suggesting that an account of something is true because someone, at some point in distant history, could have asked around? There are a few obvious flaws with that bit of logic, but here's another:
What answers would you expect an Orthodox Jew and a Early Christian to give to the question "was Jesus the messiah and did he perform miracles"? Who are you going to believe? Which answer would you, a Christian, write down in your fledgling Bible?