Brazilianguy

Reading a book called "The history of the church" written by a palestinian bishop called Eusebius, i was very much surprised to learn that the gentiles of a city called Caesarea Phillipi had made a bronze statue depicting the real facial features of Jesus ; the statue was made in gratitude for a cure performed by Jesus;the bishod also says the he saw with his own eys painted portraits with the real facial features of the Saviour and the apostles; Is there any possibility that these portraits or this statue (or at least part of it) might be lost in a museum or buried somewhere in Israel?

not a theist

Eusebius is to be taken with a grain of salt. He often just passes on things he has heard.

Toto

Eusebius is usually considered a very unreliable source. (See Richard Carrier's assessment <a href="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/NTcanon.html#6" target="_blank">here</a>.

RyanS2

Yes, I remember reading some works by an early apologist named Lightfoot, I want to say J.B. Lightfoot but I'm not certain, who had to defend the integrity of Eusebius. His defense was along the lines that, "no one had ever tried to quote as many authoritive sources as Eusibius had, thus, it is not a case of deliberate distortion, but rather, an inability due to the task in which he could not evaluate properly all of the evidence". It was a rebuttal against another author named Gibbons.

Muad'Dib

What is often missed or ignored in such defenses is that regardless of the intentions of a given author, unreliable evidence is unreliable evidence. Eusebius may not have been a liar--he may in fact have had the best and most honest of intentions--but we still need to take his testimony with several grains of salt.