Dear Rev. In a question previously answered by you in part “everything that was foretold about him in the Old Testament Jesus fulfilled and was recorded by both secular and religious writers”. Could you please provide me with some names of these secular writers and in what writings of theirs this evidence is found.

I was referring to the writings of Flavius Josephus, the Jewish historian. There are others such as Tacitus – a Roman historian, who recorded the history of Jesus’ day. These writers confirmed that there was indeed a man named Jesus Christ who was crucified by Roman soldiers and there were many followers known as Christians. For example, here is an excerpt from Josephus.

18:3:3, “Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.”

The main point is that secular writers confirmed that Jesus Christ actually lived and then died by crucifixion.