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In reply to the discussion: Caesar's Messiah, The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus [View all]3Pence
(1 post)I think the thesis makes good sense, considering that there a strong case that New Testament was written by the same group of people who also wrote the works of Josephus. Re: The Rise of British Culture, by Edwin Johnson.
He makes a good case of arguing that Christianity before the invention of the printing Press ( you're correct Gutenberg didn't exist either, just check it, nothing was known of him and not even until 100 years after his death - burial place unknown - no book existed printed with his printing atelier's name on it. ) was more Arian/Nestorian in nature.
He further argues it was the Benedictines of Monte Cassino ( Judenberg = Gutenberg ) were the ones who introduced the Printing press. He argues the Quran was the first printed holy book and in the 14th century the Jews of Spain wrote their own version not even called Old Testament at the time. The Benedictines then took it upon themselves, building upon the writings of the Jews of Spain, to write the New Testament basing the three gospels (very similar) as response and fulfillment of the Jewish books and mingling it with their Rule of St. Benedict. The gospel of St. John was in fact written earlier. They also wrote almost all Church Father's writings, to give the new distance of the West from the Eastern forms of Christianity a more authoritative foundation. Hence the same arguments over and over again for a thousand years. Amongst those writings was also Josephus' history of the War with the Jews, which was much more recent in origin, namely from 1200-1300.
Monte Cassino was also instrumental in laying the foundations of Rome as seat of the Papacy since 1417. It is also clear in that the Papal families in those days had mostly a Jewish Origin. Hence Rome indeed did create our version of Jesus. This Jesus is distinctly and historically different from the Jesus in the Quran, who is much closer to Moses and most likely the source for the book of Yoshua in the Old Testament. The figure Yoshua again does not exist in the Quran.