(October 7, 2023 at 3:45 pm)LinuxGal Wrote: No, it's a different Jesus. One who didn't have a brother who was thrown off the temple parapet and then finished off by a fuller's baton in 62 CE.
Oh, so it's a different Jesus because of Josephus's writing style, but you acknowledge that he referred to Jesus as the Christ although he never used the terms "Christ" or "Messiah." He was known to use the term "charlatan" for all the false messiahs he describes.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"