http://www.churchhopping.com/how-to-forge-ancient-documents/ Now 17% Less Judgemental Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:22:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.churchhopping.com/how-to-forge-ancient-documents/#comment-16915 A. Jacobus Sun, 16 Dec 2007 12:29:56 +0000 http://www.churchhopping.com/how-to-forge-ancient-documents/#comment-16915 I take a common sense view in the dispute; If the Testimonium is authentic , then surely Josephus would have supplied a great more information on the arrival and Resurrection of the Messiah . He was never lacking in providing detail on much less earth shattering events . It is all too neat : the Testimonium had to be inserted or how else could Christians explain the failure of Josephus (the only reliable historian of the period ) to mention such momentous events as the Gospels describe. Whiston maintains that Josephus belonged to a Christian sect and of course believes the Testimonium to be genuine I take a common sense view in the dispute;
If the Testimonium is authentic , then surely Josephus would have supplied a great more information on the arrival and Resurrection of the Messiah . He was never lacking in providing detail on much less earth shattering events .
It is all too neat : the Testimonium had to be inserted or how else could Christians explain the failure of Josephus (the only reliable
historian of the period ) to mention such momentous events as the Gospels describe.
Whiston maintains that Josephus belonged to a Christian sect and of course believes the Testimonium to be genuine

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