(April 30, 2012 at 11:50 am)Thor Wrote:(April 28, 2012 at 8:19 pm)Alter2Ego Wrote: And much to nobody's surprise, these "many people" who consider Josephus' work on Jesus Christ to be counterfeit are merely speculating. They don't have a shred of evidence to prove what they are saying.
Tell me, since when did speculations equate to evidence?[/color]
Whatever Josephus has to say about Jesus is hearsay as he was not born until AFTER Jesus supposedly died. So, it's rather irrelevant whether or not Josephus actually wrote the passages regarding Jesus.
I let him know that Jews don't confess that Jesus was the Messiah by definition. Josephus speaking of Jesus like that refutes itself as a credible source for the existence of Jesus.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
