RE: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1)
December 5, 2014 at 3:53 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2014 at 3:54 am by Mudhammam.)
BUT WAIT! Josephus also writes of Jesus:
"...there came to the feast at which it is the custom of all Jews to erect tabernacles to God, one Jesus... a rude peasant, who suddenly began to cry out, 'A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the sanctuary, a voice against the bridegroom and the bride, a voice against all the people.' Day and night he went about all the alleys with this cry on his lips. Some of the leading citizens, incensed at these ill-omened words, arrested the fellow and severely chastised him. But he, without a word on his own behalf or for the private ear of those who smote him, only continued his cries as before. Thereupon, the magistrates, supposing, as was indeed the case, that the man was under some supernatural impulse, brought him before the Roman governor; there, although flayed to the bone with scourges, he neither sued for mercy nor shed a tear, but, merely introducing the most mournful of variations into his ejaculation, responded to each stroke with 'Woe to Jerusalem!' When Albinus, the governor, asked him who and whence he was and why he uttered these cries, he answered him never a word, but unceasingly reiterated his dirge over the city, until Albinus pronounced him a maniac and let him go. During the whole period... he... daily, like a prayer that he had conned, repeated his lament, 'Woe to Jerusalem!' He neither cursed any of those who beat him from day to day, nor blessed those who offered him food: to all men that melancholy presage was his one reply. His cries were loudest at the festivals... going his round and shouting in piercing tones from the wall, 'Woe once more to the city and to the people and to the temple,' as he added a last word, 'and woe to me also'... So with those ominous words still upon his lips he passed away."
SEE! THAT'S IN THE GOSPELS TOO!!!
Oops. Wrong Jesus again. These were the words of a Jesus son of Ananias, a supposed "maniac." Apparently, they were all too common.
"...there came to the feast at which it is the custom of all Jews to erect tabernacles to God, one Jesus... a rude peasant, who suddenly began to cry out, 'A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the sanctuary, a voice against the bridegroom and the bride, a voice against all the people.' Day and night he went about all the alleys with this cry on his lips. Some of the leading citizens, incensed at these ill-omened words, arrested the fellow and severely chastised him. But he, without a word on his own behalf or for the private ear of those who smote him, only continued his cries as before. Thereupon, the magistrates, supposing, as was indeed the case, that the man was under some supernatural impulse, brought him before the Roman governor; there, although flayed to the bone with scourges, he neither sued for mercy nor shed a tear, but, merely introducing the most mournful of variations into his ejaculation, responded to each stroke with 'Woe to Jerusalem!' When Albinus, the governor, asked him who and whence he was and why he uttered these cries, he answered him never a word, but unceasingly reiterated his dirge over the city, until Albinus pronounced him a maniac and let him go. During the whole period... he... daily, like a prayer that he had conned, repeated his lament, 'Woe to Jerusalem!' He neither cursed any of those who beat him from day to day, nor blessed those who offered him food: to all men that melancholy presage was his one reply. His cries were loudest at the festivals... going his round and shouting in piercing tones from the wall, 'Woe once more to the city and to the people and to the temple,' as he added a last word, 'and woe to me also'... So with those ominous words still upon his lips he passed away."
SEE! THAT'S IN THE GOSPELS TOO!!!
Oops. Wrong Jesus again. These were the words of a Jesus son of Ananias, a supposed "maniac." Apparently, they were all too common.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
