Writings from the crowd of 500 after the resurrection

Why dont we have much record? Because two thousand years ago, writing was not in the forefront of peoples everyday life like it is today

No because it hasnt survived the passage of time. Think about it for a second. Why dont we have an abundance of writings and objects from people that lived only 100 years ago? Because its been trashed. The stuff we have is in museums or held by collectors. Well expand that dynamic 20x and we get to Jesus times. The probability of anything from a commoner surviving is close to impossible.

And we cant even know much about people from a distant time other than the assumptions we make. I always laugh when they discover some dig with some primitive tools and then make up an entire story about the civilization of the time. Its just educated guessing but its a HUGE amount of guessing.

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