[W]e had writings from the second century saying that Jesus is God. The Second Letter of Clement. Which that Epistle is from ~ 115AD. I mean, [The Christ Mosaic] is interesting... but it's not really as important as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Not even close. What is important about the Dead Sea Scrolls, is it has the entire book of Isaiah in it, where the Passage of Isaiah 53 is clearly seen, speaking of Jesus. And that was written 100 years before Jesus, and it shows that the Bible is pretty much the same today, as it was when it was first written.
{}We get this reductive in our research, we'll be unable to understand anything about history. Witnesses pass down historical accounts, and we keep them through written records copied down and transmitted through the centuries.
This just goes to show, people latch onto the wrong things. If it makes an argument weaker, they latch onto it. Because nowhere does anyone talk about the Tablet of Ebal. Of course, people obscure the clear passages, and try to make them say something they do not say. They did that with the Qeiyafa ostracon, but people are just lying about it. The evidence is clear that the Bible's true. They just deflect, lie, and cheat and steal.
Like, there's plenty of second and first century writings that say Jesus is God. This is not something that we really needed, but actually pushes the date back, not forward.
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I think Josephus is legit. It was just cognitive dissonance. A lot of big stuff was happening, and people are known to waffle between different sets of belief. Like if one were to ask me what my opinion of Trump was, it changes every day. People are not one dimensional. And you can read in the tension, that Josephus is probably struggling with it like everyone else is.
Mark 13:51Jesus saith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. 52Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
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