>>I don't need to do any homework.<<

I wonder how many your teachers heard that one.

>>You have already proved my point. You use the argument that everything about Jesus was written many years after the alleged events. Yet the proof you quote was written many years after that.<<

That would be because the alleged events didn't happen. That's what you can't seem to comprehend. Like any true believer, you assume the events had to happen. I'm trying to show you that they didn't.

To say that Jesus was whipped and scourged in Jerusalem because Josephus wrote of it--maybe the details are different but there's the kernel of it--is problematic when we remember the event Josephus wrote of happened AFTER the bible story not before. The gospels were supposedly already written and so there is no possible way Josephus could have been talking about a person who served as the model of Jesus Christ in the narrative. Yet the coincidences are too great to write off as chance. The ONLY conclusion then that can be reached is that the gospel writers pulled the material from Josephus and modified it for their purposes. Then they backdated the material to make it look earlier than Josephus in the apparent hope of not looking like they copied him but they apparently forgot that the events he wrote of had not yet happened at their backdate. It sticks out like a sore thumb with "FRAUD!" written on it.

>>You insult people but cry foul when they defend themselves.<<

Once again, the thread has recorded the whole exchange and people can read it and judge for themselves if they really care.

>>You contadict yourself over and over. I am quite open about who I am and what my views are. You hide behind a nom de plume and rely on the invective of others.<<

Not sure what you're referring to but I'm sure you're sincere.

>>I do not think it fair to challenge you to a battle of wits because it is not right to fight an unarmed man. Do yourself a favour and quit while deluding yourself that you are ahead.<<

Wouldn't it just be easier to attack the evidence? What's the problem?