[rollo tomasi]

"...but you're lying if you suggest that there's any direct evidence of him outside of the New Testament."

Never read any of Tacitus's work I presume.

Also the Romans would have just loved to romanticize a figure like Jesus Christ and written volumes upon volumes about His life and pursuit contrary to the Roman ways. [Extreme Sarcasm towards the historically challenged]

[Senator Bedfellow]

Never read any of Tacitus's work I presume.

I have. And considering that Tacitus was born twenty years or so after the Crucifixion, that's hardly "direct evidence".

[Alter Kaker]

Never read any of Tacitus's work I presume.

Tacitus lived over a hundred years after the time Jesus was supposed to have lived. As such, he's no more reliable than you would be writing of your memories of Abraham Lincoln.

I'm not saying there was no Jesus, just that there's no direct evidence outside of the Christian Bible.