Your weak objections were instantaneously dismissed as apologetic horseshit. What more is there to be said about them?
As far as Josephus goes, do you understand that a bunch of jesus freaks sat there, trying to breathe life back into that obvious forgery, and tried to strike out all of what they considered the obvious bullshit statements in the TF. What was left, they declared without a shred of evidence, was was Josephus must have written originally. Except there is no evidence for such a statement which had it existed would have served a writer such as Origen quite well when he was groping for a reason why Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. ( Origen blames it on the murder of "James the Just! ).
Oddly, Josephus himself, in The Jewish War, blames the destruction on the Zealots murdering priests inside the temple itself. How do you suppose Origen missed that? Or do you never think about things that might be inconvenient to your bullshit?
As far as Josephus goes, do you understand that a bunch of jesus freaks sat there, trying to breathe life back into that obvious forgery, and tried to strike out all of what they considered the obvious bullshit statements in the TF. What was left, they declared without a shred of evidence, was was Josephus must have written originally. Except there is no evidence for such a statement which had it existed would have served a writer such as Origen quite well when he was groping for a reason why Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans. ( Origen blames it on the murder of "James the Just! ).
Oddly, Josephus himself, in The Jewish War, blames the destruction on the Zealots murdering priests inside the temple itself. How do you suppose Origen missed that? Or do you never think about things that might be inconvenient to your bullshit?
