Question 5: Can we find any reference to Moshiach in contemporaneous secular writers?

Answer:

Yes!!! There are references to Moshiach in connection with believers, by several historians. Tacitus, who was praetor under Domitian in A. D. 88, only 58 years after the Crucifixion, refers to Moshiach (Annal XV144). Pliny the younger, who was tribune in Syria about the same time, also refers to him (Epistle X: 97). There are also references in Lucian, who lived about the middle of the second century. He states explicitly the fact of Moshiach having been crucified. Suetonius and Eusebius also refer to Moshiach. Besides these evidences, there was the persecution of the believers under Nero, which is recorded by all historians. Nero died A. D. 68, only thirty-eight years after the Crucifixion. It is therefore clear that there were many believers before that time. How could the sect have come into existence without a founder? If you saw an oak growing in a place where there was no tree fifty years before, you would suspect that someone had planted an acorn there and if four men told you how, when and by whom it was planted, you would be prepared to believe them. So, there is good reason for believing the Gospel narratives, when you read in secular history of the existence of the Church fifty years after the Crucifixion. Their stories are a credible explanation of a well-established fact.