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Eusebius's Mythology

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In to the next chapters Eusebius gave a full detailed account of the works and deeds of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and his disciples. He mentions that it was during Tiberius Caesar in his fifteenth year reign that Jesus the Christ of God began his work that God the Father send Him to do preaching the gospel (Eusebius 26). I found the deeds and works of Christ to be so captivating and interested that I had new insight in our Saviour resurrection and ascension into heaven.
In addition this miraculous story of Jesus’s resurrection had traveled through Palestine to the Emperor Tiberius. Furthermore Eusebius states that Tertullian’s wrote a report defending Christians. When the report of this Doctrine reached Tiberius he passed the information
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