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In reply to the discussion: Arkansas State Rep: ‘If Slavery Were So God-Awful, Why Didn’t Jesus Or Paul Condemn It?’ [View all]stopbush
(24,366 posts)You try to make it look like these people were contemporaries of Jesus by fudging dates. Here's one example:
You write: "~ Josephus' Antiquities (A.D. 37 - c. A.D. 100)"
That gives the impression that Josephus wrote his Antiquities between 37-100 AD. The FACT is that Josephus was BORN in AD 37 and died in AD 100. That means that Josephus was born about a year after Jesus supposedly died. His Antiquities were written in AD 95. That means that the text that you're quoting was written approximately 60 years after Jesus died.
The same applies to the other people you've cited. None of them were contemporaries of Jesus. None of them knew him or any of his supposed followers. All it is is third-hand myth conveying of what someone told someone who told someone etc.
That isn't proof. It isn't even speculation.