RE: The Kalam Cosmological argument.
January 10, 2024 at 12:38 am
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2024 at 12:40 am by Astreja.)
What I find interesting about the Testimonium Flavianum is that it doesn't fit with the "bookend" passages 18.62 and 18.65:
This is why I personally think the Jesus passage is a later insertion - Josephus interrupts an account of ongoing strife to do a "commercial" for some Christian god-man, without connecting it to the events on either side or delving further into this mysterious character elsewhere in his writings. As you mentioned, GUBU, the writing does make a lot more sense if you discard the Jesus silliness.
Quote:...there were a great number of them slain by this means, and others of them ran away wounded. And thus an end was put to this sedition.
Quote:About the same time also another sad calamity put the Jews into disorder...
This is why I personally think the Jesus passage is a later insertion - Josephus interrupts an account of ongoing strife to do a "commercial" for some Christian god-man, without connecting it to the events on either side or delving further into this mysterious character elsewhere in his writings. As you mentioned, GUBU, the writing does make a lot more sense if you discard the Jesus silliness.
