Re: Whither Philo?

jwsheffield@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I have read Philo, read Tacitus, "Annals of Rome" and Sueonius
> "The Twelve Caesars" to see the police state the Roman Empire
> was.

You clearly don't understand much about what kind of a police
state it really was. For example, people were granted freedom of
religion to the extent that they didn't proselytize to Romans or
try to undermine the Roman religions.

You can see a clear example of this in the Bible itself, in the
``good working relationship'' between the Sanhedrin and the
Romans. The Sanhedrin was a religious Jewish court made of Rabbis.

> You dodged why the Romans failed to publish a credible tome
> refuting Christianity if Jesus hadn't raised from the dead.

You're assuming that Jesus even lived in the first place. Jesus
was no more real than Hercules or Orpheus or Krishna or any of the
other numerous pagan godmen.

How were the Romans supposed to refute the Resurrection when the
man who was supposedly resurrected never was even born in the
first place?

Cheers,

b&

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