What are the
facts
about the resurrection of Jesus?
Secular
Historical Writers The Case
for Historic Christianity Ed Wharton
Thallus (About 52 A.D.)
During the time of the apostles, Thallus wrote about Jesus and
mentions the darkness when Jesus was crucified.
Falvius
Josephus (After 70 A.D.) "And there arose about this time Jesus, a wise man, if
indeed we should call him a man; for he was a doer of marvelous
deeds, a teacher of men who receive the truth with pleasure. He won
over many Jews and also many Greeks.
This man was the Messiah. And when Pilate had condemned him to the
cross at the instigation of our own leaders, those who had loved him
from the first did not cease. For he appeared
to them on the third day alive again, as the holy prophets
had predicted and said many other wonderful things about him. And
even now the race of Christians, so named after him, has not yet
died out" Cornelius
Tacitus
(54-68 A.D.) "Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened
the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures an a class hated
for 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 one
of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus..."
This
is very good stuff!
Jesus was a real man
who died
on a
real Roman cross.
