RE: Whats even attractive about Christianity anyway that people want to stay in ignorance
March 5, 2012 at 2:22 am
Quote:The temple where Jesus is said to have drove out the money changers was the most elemental example I could make.
Yet, the temple is described by Josephus in great detail. For that matter, though, Josephus - a member of a priestly family never mentions any one ( let alone "jesus" ) disrupting the temple operations in what would have been a short span of time before Josephus' birth. Surely, SOMEONE would have remembered? For that matter, Philo commented extensively on Jewish affairs and he never mentioned anyone breaking up the temple, either. Odd, eh?
The money changers performed an essential service as the half-shekel temple tax could not be paid in foreign coins. Josephus was nothing if not a member of the establishment and the fact that some firebrand assaulted the income stream of the priest class should have been of interest to him.
And yet....he is silent. Odd, eh?
