>>Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man IF IT BE LAWFUL TO CALL HIM A MAN, for he was a doer of wonders, A TEACHER OF SUCH MEN AS RECEIVE THE TRUTH WITH PLEASURE. He drew many after him BOTH OF THE JEWS AND THE GENTILES. HE WAS THE CHRIST.<< Please tell us what kind of Jew Josephus was to hold this view. this is Christian view being expressed and certainly not a Jewish one. >>When Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, FOR HE APPEARED TO THEM ALIVE AGAIN THE THIRD DAY, AS THE DIVINE PROPHETS HAD FORETOLD THESE AND THEN THOUSAND OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS ABOUT HIM,<< What divine prophet foretold this? Book, chapter and verse please. And what Jews accept this passage as referring to Jesus? >>and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day (Antiquities 18:63-64).<< Being that Josephus would have written this only a short time after this Christ has supposedly walked, well less than a century, it is odd how he remarks on the longevity of his followers as though centuries had passed. That would be because centuries had passed. This passage was unknown to anyone before the 3rd century when Eusebius quoted it. That tells us who it was that inserted it since Eusebius was of utterly dubious character as a Christian historian. Origen scoured Josephus and never mentioned this passge and it would be utterly inconceivable that he could have possibly overlooked it. And after devoting some 40 chapters of this work to King Herod, for whom he expressed loathing, Josephus raves about this amazing, fantastic man so incredible that he ought not be called a man who performed the most amazing feats and even rose from the dead and fulfilled scripture!!!!!! And he tells us this is a paragraph and never mentions it again. It's an obvious and very clumsy forgery. This is easily the most referred to "evidence" that Christians have and it has been long disproven. What else do you have?
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