Originally Posted by DBT
What first hand non Christian sources do we have? Surely you don't consider mentions by Josephus, Tacitus, et al, as being first hand accounts?
Your definition of first hand accounts and the scholarly definition of first hand accounts…also referred to as primary sources…are quite different.

Shocker.

There are many non-Christian primary sources that Ehrman references in his book that mention Jesus. He even asserts that “Historical sources like that are pretty astounding for an ancient figure of any kind” in reference to these documents of historical record that mention Jesus.

There are zero of your definition of “first hand accounts”
of any ancient historical figure in existence.

But it’s OK with me that you choose to believe that the ancient historical record that mentions Jesus should be held to a higher standard than all of the other ancient historical records that mention any other ancient historical figure.


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