wil said:
Q, I'm reading that this is considered a forgery...thoughts? Also issues with Romans records on trials and executions...no listings of Jesus or his adjacent criminals... all very confusing as folks either seem to be taking one side or the other and their results are based on their biased needs to prove one thing or the other right.
You know, based on what I discovered this week about relatively current history as noted throughout the world, there is a very good chance that not much we know is true, or better put, accurate.
Take Presisdent Woodrow Wilson for example. He was a White supremecist. And the history books paint him as one who was hesistant to get America into WWI...right. He had the Marines go into South American and Carribean countries 20 times. He also had us allied with Japan while we fought the Russians (that's right, we fought the Russians on two fronts), from 1918-1920. Then there is Helen Keller, you know the role model every school child should strive to emmulate as overcoming obstacles? She spent her whole adult life pushing for Socialism. She was more left than left allows. And of course there is the "discoverer of America" Christopher Columbus...who never set foot on North America. The Vikings however established a colony in 1003 AD and kept it for two years before abandonning it due to unrfriendly relations with the Native Americans. Columbus also set the spark for the American slave trade, only he started it with Native Americans becoming the slaves. Columbus himself transported more slaves back to Spain than any other single person (5000). Yes, he was a grand navigator and discoverer. But he was also an huge exploiter, of materials and people. He didn't die a pauper either. He died rich, left a huge estate and a title "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" which his 18th generation family still carries legitimately today.
You know who tried to stop the slave trade of native Americans before it got started? Queen Isadora of Spain. She was the only one who hated it.
I also found out that way before America got established, Europeans were enslaving Europeans, Africans, Africans, Indians, Indians. Columbus simple pushed it into a world wide commodity.
The Moors were more tolerant of Christians and Jews worshipping as they wished in Spain than Christians ever were of Muslims and Jews, anywhere.
But that all gets buried under the gloss of heroism, and painting the perfect picture.
In that light Wil, maybe Josephus is true, and attempts have been made to simply bury the truth. It certainly wouldn't be the first time in the annals of man...
If we want the truth, we have got to dig through alot of dung, just to get near it.
my thoughts
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Q