(June 26, 2017 at 10:47 am)Minimalist Wrote: The interrupted flow of the writing is obvious
Or would style of writing of a devout Jew, like Josephus, apparently include describing Jesus as wonderful and making commercial for him? I mean can't you see how desperate you are Christians?
(June 26, 2017 at 10:47 am)Minimalist Wrote: not even jesus freak writers - knew fuckall about it until Eusebius forged it in the 4th century.
Yes, like one Jesus freak writer, Origen in 2nd century, who actually complained in his treatise "Contra Celsum" that there is no historical mentioning of Jesus "is one of the most difficult undertakings that can be attempted, and is in some instances an impossibility"
chapter 42 http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04161.htm
So TF would have been his ace in the hole and yet he has never heard of TF although he knows works of Josephus very well.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
