(July 3, 2017 at 5:55 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(July 3, 2017 at 4:16 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Haven't you considered the likelihood that the "Contra Celsum" is a fraud? Is there an actual copy of the original manuscript?
I haven't. Do you have any indications it is a fraud? Now there is no treatise by Celsus that survived which was titled "The True Word", not as a whole only what's left in "Contra Celsum", but that is not strange considering that Christians were responsible for preserving books and they simply destroyed what they considered that may disgrace their religion. I mean take something banal as "Archimedes Palimpsest" - which was just about science and didn't talk about Christianity and yet monks erased it; perhaps not because they found it offensive, but still, they didn't like it enough to preserve it, so they erased it and used it to write their prayers over it.
Well, seeing that the "Contra Celsum" was printed in 1876 in London in Modern Greek chances are it's a fake. https://archive.org/details/contracelsumlib00selwgoog