Century Quote by Bart D. Ehrman

“In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or poet. His name never occurs in a single inscription, and it is never found in a single piece of private correspondence. Zero! Zip references!”

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“Paul, by the way, never says that Jesus declared himself to be divine.”

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