we have time enough to discuss it), the existence of God, isn’t a belief that depends merely on the authority of the Church. The existence of God can be proved by the use of reason. And again, the statement that Jesus Christ was crucified under Pontius Pilate isn’t a belief which depends on the authority of the Church. All sorts of authorities, Josephus for example, who wasn’t a Christian but a Jew, assure us that a man called Pontius Pilate was procurator of Judea under the emperor Tiberius. And
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