Some Interesting Facts About the New Testament

Fact - No contemporary reference currently exists outside of the Gospels which has not been shown to have been later forgeries the references Jesus Christ, or Jesus of Nazareth. (often cited passages of Josephus,Tacitus, Suetonius are vague and disputed and even supposing that they were part of the original text of these works(although early manuscripts say otherwise) none of the authors were actually alive during Jesus' alleged ministry.)
Fact - Nazareth did not even exist during the supposed time of christ, as did none of the other villages and towns mentioned in the gospels(excepting Jerusalem). Nazareth was a large graveyard in the first centuries B.C.E. and C.E. All of these places were later built to provide concrete outlets for a thriving industry of pilgramage from the 2nd and 3rd century to the present day.
Fact - The only supportable and externally referenced characters from the New Testament that can be shown to have existed are King Herod the Great the Jewish puppet king, who orders the massacre of first born male children after Jesus birth(wasn't there a Pharoah who did the same trying to kill Moses?). A heinous and thoroughly outrageous act that suspiciously goes unrecorded by the Jewish community who ardently passed on all other slights against their peoples for thousands of years. Pontius Pilate the roman prefect of Judea who supposedly for charges which were not illegal at the time, and by trial which broke all the conventions of historical roman-judeo rule executed Jesus. The Roman Emporers Augustus and Tiberius.

tune in tomorrow for an allegorical example to further illustrate the NT as historical fiction.

I will weave a tale of the messiah appearing in modern day America(oops the Mormon's beat me to it.)