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Originally Posted by hairymarx
It is not an irrelevance that Tacitus and Josephus were not alive when Jesus was allegedly crucified because according to the text it was they who claimed to be witnesses to the existence of Jesus. I'll repeat THEY THEMSELVES claimed that they were WITNESSES TO THE EXISTENCE OF JESUS,which is a physical impossibility given that they were not even born.
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No where did Josephus say that he was witnessed the existence of Christ. Where in this passage does Josephus say this?
"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."
You are arguing from a fallacy
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