Originally Posted by Metal Connoisseur

They might not have been contemporaries but usually most written histories come after the fact of an event anyway. Furthermore, Suetonius and Pliny the Younger also wrote of Christ. I don't see why pagan writers would have a reason to conspire and make up Jesus for future generations. They were simply chronicling the issue of Christians stirring up trouble by refusing to conform to the Greco-Roman pantheon of gods that all conquered cultures were expected to buy into.

The historical proof of Jesus as a man is about as solid as anything else in ancient history. Obviously historiography plays a huge role in what is given to us in that the victor always gets to tell the story but that's all we have to go off of.

Originally Posted by The Virgin

what? i don't understand you. farming is for vegetables, not for meat. if ou disagree with a farming practice, you disagree on a vegetable. unless you have a different definition of farming.