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Many fictional stories have real characters in it. The fact that Pontius Pilatus existed does't make the story around Jesus more credible. In fact, the story in
by coliveira 4y ago
Many fictional stories have real characters in it. The fact that Pontius Pilatus existed does't make the story around Jesus more credible. In fact, the story in the Gospels tells of a Pilatus who wants to appease the jews. This is at odds with what we know about him from other historians: he couldn't care less of what the jewish leaders wanted and frequently enacted laws against the local wishes.
- Spooky23 4y agoPeople are people. He ended up getting shipped back to Rome, so he screwed up. Also with the lack of surviving documentation, who knows how the story shifted, why and by who. Personally, for what it’s worth, I think Christ was a real person whose life and death created a cult of personality at a key moment in time. The details of the story have been fiddled with 1000 times over a millennia and are not reliable historically. Entire branches of Christianity have vanished with varying beliefs as to the details of the story.