Posted: Jun 24, 2019 10:05 pm
Svartalf wrote:I have to cry shenanigans when people say christianity formed in the 2nd century or later, let's remember that Nero persecuted the Christians following the great fire of 64, ergo, there were already christians around by that time.
There were no Christians in the time of Nero. It was proven that the word Christians was a forgery in the copy of Tacitus Annals 15.44.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Christ
In 1902 Georg Andresen commented on the appearance of the first 'i' and subsequent gap in the earliest extant, 11th century, copy of the Annals in Florence, suggesting that the text had been altered, and an 'e' had originally been in the text, rather than this 'i'.[19] "With ultra-violet examination of the MS the alteration was conclusively shown.
Even, the NT does not mention any one called Christians.