Inside Dating in Asia

8Jan/105

Do you know about Bithynia in Asia Minor, Pliny the Younger .?

The Governor of Bithynia in Asia Minor, Pliny the Younger (62-113 AD), sent his letter to Trajan, the Emperor, in 110 to seek advice on how to stop the spread of the Christian religion which was stealing sheep from his pagan religion for he was puzzled why it was succeeding. The gospels would have been a significant cause of faith if they had existed. If the Christians had had them they would have used them to develop faith which cannot be had without evidence. So Pliny would have burnt the gospels instead of being puzzled. His looking for advice shows that they had no evidence to make converts with meaning that they had no gospels or any scriptures maybe apart from the Old Testament. “Though we have no copy of the letter dating prior to the sixteenth century, we know that that copy was drawn from a manuscript of the sixth century that is without significant Christian interpolations. The letter is therefore of “genuine character”” (page 40, The Jesus Event).
Pliny said nothing about the history of Jesus at all. He said that the Christians were just harmless but depraved in superstition meaning that they believed without evidence and therefore without gospels.

http://www.religionislies.com/4gospelshid.html

Why was their no written account as late as 100 AD?