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Read Replies (2) | Respond to Of all the proofs for Jesus, the histories by Josephus Flavius are sited. In Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews appears the notorious passage regarding the references to Christ called the "Testimonium Flavianum" below. The only problem is when he refers to the "tribe of Christians" this was a term wasn't going to be used for another 150yrs or so after he died.(surprise surprise) If there was ever the most obvious forgery in all of the studied human historical literature, this is universally known to be it. There's absolutely no mention ever of an early Christian father ever referring to themselves as "the Tribe". (for gosh sakes, a total forgery)"Now, there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works,--a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day." Josephus Flavius as we know was a meticulous recorder of just about everything that happened in Judah & the Jews. He reveled in every story there was and lived exactly in those times yet no mention of this fellow kicking over the money lender's tables? Triumphant entering of Jerusalem? Miracles? Earthquakes after the crucifixtion & darkening skies? Of all the ommited things, Josephus would have been the most interested in the moneylender's incident, for this certainly would have been noted, he loved & recorded many many stories of this kind but just happened to leave out this fellow doing so?
