http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/09/honest-pagans-on-the-historical-jesus/ Mike Aquilina's Blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/09/honest-pagans-on-the-historical-jesus/comment-page-1/#comment-1018 Stephen’s Blog » Blog Archive » Evidence Against the Testimonium Flavianum Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:03:25 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/09/honest-pagans-on-the-historical-jesus/#comment-1018 [...] The problem some scholars raise (and even some Church Fathers raised) is that if Josephus could make a statement of faith such as “He was the Christ,” such a faith should pervade the rest of his history - especially his reading of the prophets and patriarchs, and at the very least his reading of the death of St. James. But it doesn’t. In recent centuries, some unbelieving scholars have used the paucity of references to Jesus in Josephus’ writings to argue against the Nazarene’s very existence. Yet they perhaps forget that Josephus elsewhere proclaims his own master, the Emperor Vespasian, to be the Messiah, and so the historian would probably be reluctant to give notice to the most promising “competition.” - http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/09/honest-pagans-on-the-historical-jesus/ [...] [...] The problem some scholars raise (and even some Church Fathers raised) is that if Josephus could make a statement of faith such as “He was the Christ,” such a faith should pervade the rest of his history – especially his reading of the prophets and patriarchs, and at the very least his reading of the death of St. James. But it doesn’t. In recent centuries, some unbelieving scholars have used the paucity of references to Jesus in Josephus’ writings to argue against the Nazarene’s very existence. Yet they perhaps forget that Josephus elsewhere proclaims his own master, the Emperor Vespasian, to be the Messiah, and so the historian would probably be reluctant to give notice to the most promising “competition.” – http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/09/honest-pagans-on-the-historical-jesus/ [...]

]]> http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/09/honest-pagans-on-the-historical-jesus/comment-page-1/#comment-243 xavier Tue, 09 May 2006 22:58:58 +0000 http://www.fathersofthechurch.com/2006/05/09/honest-pagans-on-the-historical-jesus/#comment-243 Mike: How sad we lost Celsus' works. I bet that we've read them, the writing would sound very familiar eh? xavier Mike:
How sad we lost Celsus’ works. I bet that we’ve read them, the writing would sound very familiar eh?
xavier

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