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Historic Letter Written by Pontus Pilate to Tiberius Caesar?
The Reason For My Faith ^ | 35 AD | Pontus Pilate???

Posted on 02/06/2021 12:06:10 PM PST by OneVike

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To: OneVike; SunkenCiv
This appears to be part of an effort in the early church to lay blame upon the Jews for Christ's crucifixion and absolving the Romans (who coincidentally embraced the Christian religion about this time).

Today, Hollywood seems to be of an opposite mind: to blame the Romans and not isolate the Jews.

Each individual will, I suppose, make up their own mind.
Pontus Whoosit

41 posted on 09/05/2021 2:59:16 PM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: nomorelurker

Needs some Rafael Marie Desoto art to go on the cover.


42 posted on 09/05/2021 3:10:46 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. Trump always wins. . )
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To: A strike

I think the writer meant “Pantoufle.”


43 posted on 09/05/2021 3:11:58 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: OneVike
This letter is almost certainly fake.

As for who Pontius Pilate actually was, this article is instructive:

"Quid est veritas?" What is the truth about Pontius Pilate?
44 posted on 09/05/2021 6:04:44 PM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: OneVike

I doubt it was the Roman practice to send a governor of a province into the province without a standard military presence to protect him and the Roman bureaucracy that would help govern the province and collect taxes.

Wasn’t Pilate’s residence in the Antonia Fortress attached to the Temple Mount? I don’t have the patience or time at my advanced age any more to confirm my thoughts.


45 posted on 09/06/2021 4:30:00 PM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" scares me)
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To: OneVike

Golden colored hair and beard?


46 posted on 09/08/2021 6:20:24 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: monkeyshine

Egypt is next door. He would have used papyrus.


47 posted on 09/08/2021 6:21:21 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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