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Seriously what is the point of these discussions? There is no way to convince poeple that their deeply held beliefs are nonsense.



True, infact I really doubt Kinji has actually looked inside Antiquities, but instead probably pasted from a christian site. It would be quite useless to explain why Flavius Josephus most probably didn't meant the christian jesus but someone else... "and brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ," -> according to biblical scholars this probably was added lateron.

Apart from that you've got to understand that for something like this to be of any real historical value it should be made during the life of Jesus, not close to 100 years later. You will probably disagree, but with this in mind there's really no solid evidence for the person Jesus as mentioned in the bible. Infact, isn't it suprising that if the Jesus of the bible really did exist that he doesn't get mentioned way more often???

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