| Subject: Re: Was Jesus REAL!! - YES!!!! |
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CJ
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Date Posted: 11:50:49 11/27/04 Sat
In reply to:
CJ
's message, "Re: Was Jesus REAL!! - YES!!!!" on 11:48:58 11/27/04 Sat
>>Well, I guess that would make not only the Bible to be
>>fake, but the writings of many Jewish scholars like
>>Josephus fakes and also Roman history fake too. CJ, I
>>think this is going to be a huge project for you and
>>by the time you get through it you may forget what you
>>started doing it for. Anyway, I can categorically say
>>that Jesus is REAL, but I can't make you believe that,
>>you need to find out for yourself. What have you got
>>to lose by asking Jesus to show that He's real to you
>>and actually mean it by giving Him a chance to prove
>>that He's God. It might save you years of research.
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>I'm glad you bring josephus up how does a man like him
>write things that occured 150 years before he was born
>how would you consider a person like that an authority?
>In the entire works of the Jewish historian Josephus,
>which constitute many volumes, there are only two
>paragraphs that purport to refer to Jesus. Although
>much has been made of these "references," they have
>been dismissed by all scholars and even by Christian
>apologists as forgeries, as have been those referring
>to John the Baptist and James, "brother" of Jesus.
>Bishop Warburton labeled the Josephus interpolation
>regarding Jesus as "a rank forgery, and a very stupid
>one, too."29 Wheless notes that, "The first mention
>ever made of this passage, and its text, are in the
>Church History of that 'very dishonest writer,' Bishop
>Eusebius, in the fourth century...CE [Catholic
>Encyclopedia] admits... the above cited passage was
>not known to Origen and the earlier patristic
>writers." Wheless, a lawyer, and Taylor, a minister,
>agree that it was Eusebius himself who forged the
>passage.
the problem is most christians are content woth what the church writes and says. unfortunateyl we must take nothing at face value
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