mrstickball said:
James was younger than Jesus....He lived about 30yrs after Jesus' death. Josephus mentioned James at length, as he was the head of the Christian Church in Jerusalem until 62AD when he was murdered by the Jews via stoning. If you read Josephus' works, his work 'Antiquity of the Jews' was the written history of the Jewish faith, and how Christianity had effected it. If Christianity did not exist by 93AD....Then I sincerely question why Josephus would mention something that did not exist? Either Josephus was a liar, and every other book he wrote, would be struck as invalid (he wrote earlier than 93AD, as his first book The Jewish Wars was written in 74AD). He was born in 37AD, so he may have met James in person, or interviewed people that knew James and Jesus, personally. Also, I'd really love to know how Israel is the one targeting civilians. Last I checked, Israel was boming Hamas targets, and the civilians were in collateral damage - but not the targets. |
Interestingly Josephus WAS a liar.
He got his position by agreeing to be the last person to comit suicide after killing everyone else in his revolutionary sect....
and instead he surrendered.
Though historically he's mostly seen as accurate outside of the embelshment with his own sect of Jewish revolutionaries, in which he made them look better then they were because the Roman emperor of the time... i'm forgetting his name... didn't have any great conquests.








