[shunyadragon]

Quote by: Zhavric Put aside the stories that don't match up. Put aside the ridiculously impossible claims. Put aside everything that makes the Jesus myth obviously false and the biggest evidence that Jesus of the bible never existed is Philo of Alexandria. He lived at the time Jesus allededly was alive. He wrote about Hellenized Jews and was interested in Grecko-Roman religion as it pertained to Judaism. We know that he visited the area that Jesus allegedly existed. Yet, despite that, he managed to miss (according the bible) an incarnate god who came back from the dead, raised people from the dead and had the popularity / infamy of a rock star. Imagine someone telling you that Superman showed up at the corner of Main and First and saved everyone in a burning building and was awarded the key to the city by the mayor... Then imagine finding someone who blogs about superheroes who lives in the building across the street from where the blaze was who never mentioned the fire or Superman showing up.

I am familar with Philo and this problem, but this is not the subject of the thread.

If you have any thing to offer in terms of quotes from Philo concrening the situation in in Palistine in the 1st century, Herodian lineage, Hellenized Jews at the tim in Palistine, and Paul it would be helpful.

Philo would be a good topic for a thread.