Can we find any reference to Christ in contemporaneous secular writers?

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There are references to Christ by several historians.Tacitus, who was praetor under Domitian in A.D. 88, only 58 yrs, after the crucifixion, refers to Christ (annal XV:44) Pliny the Younger, who was tribune in in Syria about the same time also refers to him. There are also references in Lucian, who lived about the middle of the second century. He states explicitly the fact of Christ having been crucified.
Suetonius and Eusebius also refer to Christ. Besides these evidences, there was the persecution of the christians, under Nero, which is recorded by all historians.
Nero died in A.D. 68, only 38 yrs. after the crucifixtion. It is therefore clear that there were many christians before that time. How could the sect have come into existence without a founder?
 
The writers that you refer to, spoke only of the Christ ( a title) not the man Jesus. From an historical viewpoint the title "Christ" could very well refer to an ideal or myth.
 
Flavius Josephus was born in AD37 and died in AD100... he was certainly
contemporaneous for that time.
(the "smee" guy & "MaidinKent" are ignorant of this)

He was an eminent historian, widely held to be the most significant non-biblical
writer of the first century. He researched the history of the Jews from the reign
of Antiochus Epiphanes (BC 175-163) to the fall of Masada in AD73 and his work
was of incomparable value in documenting the setting of the era from the before
Jesus' birth and on through the New Testament times. He did write about Christ,
a tribute to Him in "Antiquities of the Jews" Chapter 3, part 3.

All the antichrist whingers would not like you to have that knowledge.
 
not really,they deleated me,they want things their own way and not my way.,practice the holy rosary,practice makes perfect,we love you all,the holy family.
 
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