[SIZE=3][FONT=verdana]Hello, men and women. Here I am once again for the 100th time to debunk the scoffer’s beliefs, or rather their lack of belief in the non-existence of Jesus. Personally, I’d like to believe the only reason atheists are atheists is only that they want to do whatever they want, whenever they want without facing any form of repercussions for their actions. Other than that, I literally see no reason why someone becomes an atheist. These lot are the type to believe that child molesters, rapists, and slave oppressors died and that’s it, no afterlife, no Heaven or Hell. Their lack of belief has caused them to be a laughing stock among freemasons of all people; and according to the masons, atheists are considered fools and are at the bottom of the food chain, lower than those not in their cult.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=verdana]So this here is the truth: Jesus Christ is legit and He existed, so here are some non-biblical people that wrote about His existence.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[CENTER][FONT=times new roman][SIZE=5]Flavius Josephus, (AD 37-100).[/SIZE]
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[FONT=verdana][SIZE=3]He is the first author outside the church to mention Jesus. Flavius Josephus was a Jewish historian who wrote a history of Judaism around AD93 and he has this incredible reference to Jesus.[/SIZE]
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[CENTER][FONT=times new roman]Josephus, Antiquities 18. 63-64; “Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works—a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.” – Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews 18.3.3[1]
[SIZE=5]Tacticus (The Roman historian and senator). ([/SIZE][SIZE=5]Born: c. 56 AD-120 AD)[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER]
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About 20 years after Josephus we have the Roman politician Tacitus who referred to Jesus, his execution by Pontius Pilate, and the existence of early Christians in Rome in his final work, Annals (written ca. AD 116), book 15, chapter 44. [/FONT][/SIZE]
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[CENTER][FONT=times new roman]…Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on 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, and a most mischievous superstition… Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired. Nero offered his gardens for the spectacle, and was exhibiting a show in the circus, while he mingled with the people in the dress of a charioteer or stood aloft on a car. Hence, even for criminals who deserved extreme and exemplary punishment, there arose a feeling of compassion; for it was not, as it seemed, for the public good, but to glut one man’s cruelty, that they were being destroyed…[/FONT][/CENTER]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=verdana]It is obvious that Tacitus is not a sympathetic witness to Christianity, and this helps lend further credibility to his account. Additionally, it is helpful to note that the events which Tacitus records occurred at about the same time as the Gospel of Luke and the Book of Acts were written.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[CENTER][FONT=times new roman][SIZE=5]Pliny the Younger ([/SIZE][SIZE=5]61 CE- 113 CE)[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=verdana]He was the governor of the Roman province of Bithynia (modern-day Turkey) when a number of Christians were brought into his court. It is unclear what the initial charges are, but he ultimately decided, despite the fact that the Christians seemed generally harmless to him, that he should execute them if they refused to recant their faith. This is part of his letter to Trajan, the Roman emperor at the time…[/FONT][/SIZE]
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It is my constant method to apply myself to you for the resolution of all my doubts… I have never been present at the examination of the Christians [by others], on which account I am unacquainted with what uses to be inquired into, …or whether it may not be an advantage to one that had been a Christian, that he has forsaken Christianity? … In the meantime, I have taken this course about those who have been brought before me as Christians. I asked them whether they were Christians or not? If they confessed that they were Christians, I asked them again, and a third time, intermixing threatenings with the questions. If they persevered in their confession, I ordered them to be executed; for I did not doubt but, let their confession be of any sort whatsoever, this positiveness and inflexible obstinacy deserved to be punished. There have been some of this mad sect whom I took notice of in particular as Roman citizens, that they might be sent to that city.
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You have taken the method which you ought in examining the causes of those that had been accused as Christians, for indeed no certain and general form of judging can be ordained in this case. These people are not to be sought for; but if they be accused and convicted, they are to be punished; but with this caution, that he who denies himself to be a Christian, and makes it plain that he is not so by supplicating to our gods, although he had been so formerly, may be allowed pardon, upon his repentance. As for libels sent without an author, they ought to have no place in any accusation whatsoever, for that would be a thing of very ill example, and not agreeable to my reign.[/FONT][/CENTER]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=verdana]These are some of the many prominent non-biblical people that testified to Christ’s existence. So you can deny Jesus all you want, I mean you won’t be the first or last to do it, but as you ignorantly do so, also remember the unpredictability of death and the length of eternity man.[/FONT][/SIZE]
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[SIZE=3][FONT=verdana]My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being priest for Me; Because you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. Hosea 4:6
King David wrote as recorded in Psalm 14:1 ''The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”
May the good Lord Jesus Christ be with you and your families, Amen.[/FONT][/SIZE]