Zone1 Jesus' legal name

[Polishprince]

Jesus was what the masses called Him.

But His close friends knew him as Immanuel, according to Matthew 1:23.


Is this the reason why there are so few historical records about His life outside of the New Testament?

People are looking for the wrong name in the Roman records, and instead should be looking for Rabbi Immanuel H. Christ instead?

 

[Hafar1014]

Jesus was what the masses called Him.

But His close friends knew him as Immanuel, according to Matthew 1:23.


Is this the reason why there are so few historical records about His life outside of the New Testament?

People are looking for the wrong name in the Roman records, and instead should be looking for Rabbi Immanuel H. Christ instead?

First of all his name indicates he is really a Mexican

 

[norwegen]

Why would the Romans have kept records of him, whatever his name was?

 

[Bleipriester]

Why would the Romans have kept records of him, whatever his name was?

They did stuff like that.

 

[Polishprince]

Why would the Romans have kept records of him, whatever his name was?

The Romans were big on taking censuses, that's why they were traveling when Emmanuel aka Jesus was born.

 

[Harry Dresden]

First of all his name indicates he is really a Mexican

even though he predates mexicans....

 

[Hafar1014]

even though he predates mexicans....

He could also be Puerto Rican or Cuban

 

[norwegen]

They did stuff like that.

Well, there was a census in Judea in AD 6, while Jesus was in Galilee.

So. . . as if that matters. . .

The names of all the Jews in the region that the Romans recorded for taxation or military conscription - who has them?

If they weren't lost, do we know we would have found the names of all the Jews in them?

Jesus' birth and trial records. Where are they? Oh yea, no known birth records of Jews in Galilee when Jesus was born. And of course the Romans dismissed his trial in Judea. The authorities let the soldiers take him under Jewish pressure. His trial was strictly Jewish.

Of the millions of Jews in this Roman province, why should their records of Jesus have been the only ones to have survived war and Jewish extermination and expulsion?

Did you not know that the Romans rid their new country, the former Judea, of virtually all Jewish presence? So, why would they have kept records of Jesus?

 

[norwegen]

The Romans were big on taking censuses, that's why they were traveling when Emmanuel aka Jesus was born.

Oh, yea, I guess Mary and Joseph were in Judea at the time of the census. I erred on my previous post. I'm under the impression, though, that Jesus was born there after they registered, and didn't get counted.

And that's just Luke's account. Other gospel accounts differ on the timing of Christ's birth. In either case, I don't see why any Roman record of Jesus' birth should have existed.