USA: National Security Strategy, Juan's Wet Dream

James A. Donald jamesd at echeque.com
Tue Dec 26 13:02:29 PST 2017


On 12/27/2017 6:35 AM, juan wrote:
> 	if you stupid lying cunt are unable to read a couple of basic
> 	articles and understand them,

The articles you cite lie:  See wikipedia on this topic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus

	Modern scholarship has largely acknowledged the authenticity of the 
reference in Book 20, Chapter 9, 1 of the Antiquities to "the brother of 
Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James"[12] and considers it 
as having the highest level of authenticity among the references of 
Josephus to Christianity.[13][1][2][14][15][16] Almost all modern 
scholars consider the reference in Book 18, Chapter 5, 2 of the 
Antiquities to the imprisonment and death of John the Baptist also to be 
authentic and not a Christian interpolation.[17][18][19] The references 
found in Antiquities have no parallel texts in the other work by 
Josephus such as The Jewish War, written 20 years earlier, but some 
scholars have provided explanations for their absence.[20] A number of 
variations exist between the statements by Josephus regarding the deaths 
of James and John the Baptist and the New Testament accounts.[17][21] 
Scholars generally view these variations as indications that the 
Josephus passages are not interpolations, for a Christian interpolator 
would have made them correspond to the New Testament accounts, not 
differ from them.[17][22][21]

In this, Wikipedia accurately reports the official consensus of official 
academia:

However, on the dating of the gospels, the the official consensus of 
official academia is evidently untruthful, dating the gospels to after 
the fall of the temple and Jerusalem, because the gospels report Jesus 
as prophesying the fall of the Temple and Jerusalem.  And they figure no 
one could have seen that coming.

But you would expect someone who was critical of the holiness spiral 
going on at the time to prophesy the fall of Jerusalem, regardless of 
whether divinely inspired, God himself, or just another man like myself 
holding up his finger to see which way the wind blows.

We can be sure that all four primary gospels were written before 70 C.E, 
because Jesus' prophecies concerning the fall of Jerusalem and the 
temple were vague, shifty, evasive and unfalsifiable, even though it was 
obvious at the time that the wind was blowing towards suicidal and self 
destructive war with the Roman empire

Had they been written up after the fall of Jerusalem, they would have 
been remembered as much more specific concrete, and detailed.

Shortly before the fall of Jerusalem, Christians did get specific and 
concrete prophecies about the fall (but by that time it was pretty 
obvious what was going to come down) and those more concrete prophecies 
were not misattributed to Jesus.




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