Faith,
Equally remarkable is that he can name their founder and his fate, and even identify when it occurred, under Tiberius and Pilate, and yet this proves nothing, because he had to have received the information from some other source,
Received the information from the same source as the rest of the christians, who also weren't there.
and, oh amazing twist, since it is the SAME information as what the New Testament says
Why is this amazing if Tacitus used the same oral tradition as his source?
That's a bit like saying my brother & I read the same book, therefore it' non-fiction.
Mark
This message has been edited by mark24, 01-11-2006 04:17 PM
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