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Well, thats just what militant critics would have you believe about Jesus Christ!
Nebo Sarsekim
Michael checked the Old Testament and found the same name rendered as Nebo Sarsekim, who according to chapter 39 of the book of Jeremiah, was chief officer to Nebuchadnezzar II, and present at the siege of Jerusalem in 587 BC, when Daniel the prophet was captured also.
Dr. Irving Finkel of the British Museum summed up the significance: A
fantastic discovery, a world-class find,it means the whole of the narrative [of Jeremiah] takes on new power.
Example: Historians long disputed the existence of King Sargon of Assyria mentioned in Isaiah 20:1 who fought against Ashdod and took it, UNTIL
Paul Emile Botta, in 1843, discovered Sargons palace (above) at Khorsabad in Iraq. 90 yrs. later, archeologists found the above event recorded on its palace walls.
In 1970 the archives of the ancient city Ebla in Northern Syria were discovered. The clay tablets confirmed the Biblical patriarchs!
Documents
written on clay tablets from around 2300 B.C. demonstrate that personal and place names in the accounts of the Hebrew Bible patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, are genuine! The name Canaan was in use in Ebla, a name critics once said was not used at that time and was used incorrectly in the early chapters of the Bible. The word tehom (meaning the deep) in Genesis 1:2, was said to be a late word demonstrating the late writing of the creation story. But Tehom was part of the vocabulary at Ebla, in use some 800 years before Moses! Ancient Bible customs reflected in the stories of the Patriarchs were also found in clay tablets from the cities Nuzi and Mari.
Is Jesus Historical?
Note that historians never doubt the existence for example of, Alexander the Great!
Second Question:
BUT
The historicity of Alexander the Great and his military conquests is drawn from five ancient sources, none of whom were eyewitnesses. Although only written 400 years after Alexander, Plutarchs Life of Alexander is the primary account of his life. Jesus historical Gospels were written by eyewitnesses and/or contemporaries, and should be considered history books, but are not! And they were written within 60 years after his resurrection!
For instance the Roman Historian Gaius Cornelius Tacitus mentions Christus in his 115 AD annals.
Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated by their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillas, chief secretary of Emperor Hadrian (117-138 AD) stated: Because the Jews of Rome caused continous disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, [Emperor Claudius] expelled them from the city. After the great fire at Rome [during Nero's reign] Punishments were also inflicted on the Christians, a sect professing a new and mischievous religious belief.
Nero & Agrippina before he married Jewish Poppeia
Flavius Josephus (37-97 AD), Jewish court historian for Emperor Vespasian:
"At this time there was a wise man who was called Jesus. And his conduct was good and he was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and other nations became his disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They reported that he had appeared to them three days after his crucifixion and that he was alive; accordingly, he was perhaps the messiah concerning whom the prophets have recounted wonders." (From Arabic translation)
Even the darkness that covered the land during Jesus' crucifixion was recorded in secular history Julius Africanus, writing in 221 AD, found a reference in the writings of Samaritan Historian C. Thallus, (c. 50-75AD) who wrote a history of the Eastern Mediterranean dealing with the darkness that covered the land during Jesus' crucifixion:
histories, explains away the darkness as an eclipse of the sun--unreasonably, as it seems to me."
[Unreasonably, because a solar eclipse cannot take place during a full moon, as was the case during Passover season.]
Also Origen States that Phlegon Confirms Jesus' story & The Darkness at Noon:
Phlegon was a historian who lived in the first century. There are two books credited to his name: Chronicles and the Olympiads. Little is known about Phlegon but he made reference to Christ. The first two quotes are unique to Origen and the last quote below is recorded by Origen and Philopon. "Now Phlegon, in the thirteenth or fourteenth book, I think, of his Chronicles, not only ascribed to Jesus a knowledge of future events . . . but also testified that the result corresponded to His predictions."-- Origen Against Celsus "And with regard to the eclipse in the time of Tiberius Caesar, in whose reign Jesus appears to have been crucified, and the great earthquakes which then took place" -- Origen Against Celsus "Phlegon mentioned the eclipse which took place during the crucifixion of the Lord Jesus and no other (eclipse); it is clear that he did not know from his sources about any (similar) eclipse in previous times . . . and this is shown by the historical account of Tiberius Caesar." -- De. opif. mund. II21
Origen
Pliny the Younger, Roman governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor around 112 AD:
"[The Christians] were in the habit of meeting on a certain fixed day before it was light, when they sang in alternate verses a hymn to Christ, as to a god, and bound themselves by a solemn oath, not to any wicked deeds, but never to commit any fraud, theft or adultery, never to falsify their word, nor deny a trust when they should be called upon to deliver it up; after which it was their custom to separate, and then reassemble to partake of food--but food of an ordinary and innocent kind." Pliny added that Christianity attracted persons of all societal ranks, all ages, both sexes, and from both the city and the country. Later in his letter to Emperor Trajan, Pliny refers to the teachings of Jesus and his followers as excessive and contagious superstition.
"On the eve of the Passover Yeshu was hanged. For forty days before the execution took place, a herald went forth and cried, 'He is going forth to be stoned because he has practised sorcery and enticed Israel to apostacy. Anyone who can say anything in his favour, let him come forward and plead on his behalf.' But since nothing was brought forward in his favour he was hanged on the eve of the Passover." [Another early reference in the Talmud speaks of five of Jesus' disciples and recounts their standing before judges who make individual decisions about each one, deciding that they should be executed. However, no actual deaths are recorded.]
[PICTURE: DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM PREDICTED BY JESUS.]
Mara Bar-Serapion of Syria, writing from prison @ 70-200 AD, to motivate his son to emulate wise teachers of the past:
"What advantage did the Athenians gain from putting Socrates to death? Famine and plague came upon them as a judgment for their crime. What advantage did the men of Samos gain from burying Pythagoras? In a moment their land was covered with sand. What advantage did the Jews gain from executing their wise king? It was just after that that their kingdom was abolished. God justly avenged these three wise men: The Athenians died of hunger; the Samians were overwhelmed by the sea; the Jews, ruined and driven from their land, live in complete dispersion. But Socrates did not die for good; he lived on in the teaching of Plato. Pythagoras did not die for good; he lived on in the statue of Hera. Nor did the wise king die for good; he lived on in the teaching which he had given."
Millions of people are still leaving the name card of their leader all over the world! And He himself? He Still Lives Today! Can you believe it?
If you do? You have eternal Life in His Name!
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have Everlasting Life! -- John 3:16 As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become the children of God, even to them that believe on His Name! -- John 1:12
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