Why did Jesus Christ sacrifice his self for you?

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drkohler said:

JWeinCom said:

As for Josephus, he was born in 37 AD, so he wouldn't have been an eye witness and there is speculation that the passages on Jesus may have been later interpolations.  I really don't have the scholarship to address that, but it's not a fringe view.

All Scholars agree that "the Jesus text" in Josephus people still use as proof is a later christian addition/forgery and was not in the original text. There is no argument or speculation about that. Also there are several Jesuses mentioned in various parts of the original texts, none of which match "the" Jesus. Whether Jesus actually existed at all is open to debate. A luxury we actually have in the Christian world. Try that with Mohammed and the Quran in the Islamic world.....

I think the belief is that there was some part in the original that was vastly expanded upon later by early christians.  Again, I'm not a scholar, so I'm not able to really speak to this.