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Objective evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ?
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RE: Objective evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ?
(April 1, 2015 at 1:49 am)Cephus Wrote: Except we know that Josephus never wrote what theists claim he wrote, it was an early Christian attempt at forgery.  Not a single copy of Jewish Antiquities that existed from the time of Josephus contained that passage.  Josephus wasn't a Christian work, he was a Jew and remained that way until his death.  You'd think that if he had written what is recorded in Jewish Antiquities, he'd have converted but there's no reason to think he ever did.  Tacitus never even wrote about Jesus, at best he wrote about people who followed the teachings of Jesus.  That's why these accounts are so laughable, they're just reporting about popular mythology of the day, repeating things they heard, which is not evidence of anything.  Tacitus wasn't a Christian either, he was writing a letter to Nero, complaining about the terrible things that  Christians were doing in the name of their leader.
Please tell what you just know was in Josephus' REAL account. You do realize that he makes two separate references to Jesus, and the one that is believed to have been tampered with exists in some manuscripts without the interpolated parts? OF COURSE Tacitus and Josephus were writing what they had heard... which goes to show that from the first century of Christianity, nobody who apparently knew about Jesus cared to mention a purely mythical Christ, only one recognized to have been an actual person.
(April 1, 2015 at 1:49 am)Cephus Wrote: That's the problem, all of these supposed "accounts" have been thoroughly debunked.  Clearly you have never bothered to examine any of them, instead just pulling them off some apologist website, because if you had spent 10 seconds examining them, there's no way you'd find any of them credible.
You provide two sources of early, non-Christian references to a physical man, Jesus, and that's supposed to give credit to your conspiracy theory? That's a joke, right? Some people are so desperate to dismiss Christianity they'll come up with the worst reasons, at all costs, in doing so.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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RE: Objective evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ? - by Mudhammam - April 1, 2015 at 5:40 am

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