There are those who insist that Jesus never existed, that he was the sole product of a first century imagination, or was created as the result of a Roman Caesar's conspiracy. All it takes to maintain such a position is to ignore written history. The Roman historian Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56 CE - 120 CE) wrote about a man called Christ who was executed in Tiberius' reign by the governor of Judaea, Pontius Pilate. The Jewish historian Josephus (37...