Josephus-What Christians?

The Book of Acts claims Three Thousand souls were added to the Church in just one day, and that daily theChurch grew. Josephus was born in the year 37 CE. In "The Life of Josephus", he stated there were only three sects in existance when he was 16, and Christianity was not one of them.

"And when I was about sixteen years old, I had a mind to make trim of the several sects that were among us. These sects are three: - The first is that of the Pharisees, the second that Sadducees, and the third that of the Essenes, as we have frequently told you; for I thought that by this means I might choose the best, if I were once acquainted with them all; so I contented myself with hard fare, and underwent great difficulties, and went through them all."

I misstakenly stated that Paul was arrested one year after Josephus began studing the sects-it was actually 3 years. Also at one point I said there were 3,000 Essenes mentioned by Josephus-the correct number was 4,000.

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[Arc8609]

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[ForBibletruth]

@Arc8609, Adam is "Red","earth",

Seth is "set or appointed"

Enosh is "man".

Cainan is "possessor, purchaser"

Mahalalel is "to shout praise of God"

Jared "descent" or "descending" and also "Rose"-(the flower, not resurrection).

Enoch is "trained and vowed, dedicated; profound".

Methuselah is, "Man of the dart or spear", "one who was sent".

[ForBibletruth]

@Arc8609, Lamech is "For Lowering; For Humiliation"(The New Open Bible Study Edition, Thomas Nelson Publishers says the name means "Wild Man")

Noah is "comfort","peaceful", "long-lived", "wanderer".

You should take the time to research these things yourself. What Chuck Missler

is teaching may sound great at first, but, it makes no sense-God cannot die.

[EsotericWisdom33]

Is it possible that historical documents were "altered" or forged many centuries after their estimated dates to make history suit a certain group of people (like organised religion)?

[ForBibletruth]

@EsotericWisdom33, Yes, I have no doubt that is the case, but, in this instance, why would the forgers not include a paragraph or two about the early Church? The answer is that these wrttings of Josephus were well known by the Early Church Fathers, who had already searched them in vain. That is why we suspect that the " Testimonium Flavianum" was inserted by Eusebius, who suddenly "found it" in the 4th century.

[00AliIbnAbiTalib00]

My friend, the answer is simple: the nazarene are the zealots. The Christians (herodians supporters), the ones who went to Rome seeking help from Nero after getting kicked by the nazarene (the fourth philosophy): The sect of King Agrippa II.

Guess who is left after the destruction of the temple:

Sadducee : Destroyed by the zealots X

Pharisees: became popular (the sect of Flavius Josephus) 

Essene: Destroyed during the revolt

Zealots: Left to the Nabateans kingdom, arabia and to Adiabena...

[ForBibletruth]

@00AliIbnAbiTalib00, My point was, at that point in Josephus' life, if Christianity was a major sect, with thousands of followers, as claimed in the Book of Acts, and more and more converts added daily, why didn't he notice them? This was 13 years before the removal of King Agrippa II.

[PatriotInChief]

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[EsotericWisdom33]

@ForBibletruth Very interesting indeed. The masses have been blinded to the truth by the controllers who have many faces but the same goal: power, money and control.

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[straygypsy]

@ForBibletruth OOOOOOOPS! MY BAD!

I was thinking of the NT writings, which were written about AD 70-110, while the writings of Paul were not written until the period AD 50-60.

My point was that this would mean that the theories of Paul were already before the writers of the Gospels and "coloured" their interpretations of Jesus' activities.