Seneca was an important and very influential philosopher that lived at the same time as Jesus. I’ve read his letters and always wondered why didn’t Seneca ask about Jesus? Why didn’t they meet? All those miracles yet there’s no personal correspondence among people to be found. Why didn’t Jesus write anything? He had a family. Why don’t w…
Seneca was an important and very influential philosopher that lived at the same time as Jesus. I’ve read his letters and always wondered why didn’t Seneca ask about Jesus? Why didn’t they meet? All those miracles yet there’s no personal correspondence among people to be found. Why didn’t Jesus write anything? He had a family. Why don’t we know if any of his relatives are still alive? It seems like they would still have great status even today.
To Seneca, Jesus would have been "just some itinerant preacher in Judea", if he'd even heard of him at all. Christianity didn't reach Rome until a decade or so after Jesus' death, and still then wasn't taken seriously by many Romans (what, you want us to worship only ONE god, and you say this god inhabited the body of some executed terrorist who got up and walked around again afterwards? Don't make me laugh!)
Personally, I think it's BECAUSE of the great status that would be attributed to relatives of Jesus, that God allowed such records to be lost. I mean, just look at the fuss made by the Roman church about the "Successor to Peter", and he's not even blood-related, to just one of twelve apostles (though arguably the spokesman).
Seneca was an important and very influential philosopher that lived at the same time as Jesus. I’ve read his letters and always wondered why didn’t Seneca ask about Jesus? Why didn’t they meet? All those miracles yet there’s no personal correspondence among people to be found. Why didn’t Jesus write anything? He had a family. Why don’t we know if any of his relatives are still alive? It seems like they would still have great status even today.
To Seneca, Jesus would have been "just some itinerant preacher in Judea", if he'd even heard of him at all. Christianity didn't reach Rome until a decade or so after Jesus' death, and still then wasn't taken seriously by many Romans (what, you want us to worship only ONE god, and you say this god inhabited the body of some executed terrorist who got up and walked around again afterwards? Don't make me laugh!)
Personally, I think it's BECAUSE of the great status that would be attributed to relatives of Jesus, that God allowed such records to be lost. I mean, just look at the fuss made by the Roman church about the "Successor to Peter", and he's not even blood-related, to just one of twelve apostles (though arguably the spokesman).