Flavius Titus (his circle) invented Jesus and penned the Gospels

[Charles Albert]

http://www.amazon.com/Caesars-Messiah-Roman-Conspiracy-Invent/dp/1569754578

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cfa

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> During the course of the Judean War, 66-73ce, a few things of interest
> occurred.  The final Julio-Claudian emperor, Vitellius (I believe Nero's
> son?), departed Rome.  Flavius Josephus had a rather poignant conversion to
> Roman ways of thinking.  And the second Flavius, Titus, after his father
> Vespasian, decided he'd had enough with roguish outbreaks of absurd
> independence in Judea.
>
> A couple things went toward this.  The Jews had this ridiculous thing in
> their religious system that simply forbid them to pay any tribute in one
> their God's temples to anybody but him.  Sorry Jackson, just can't do it.
>  And the habit emperors of Rome had of coming to believe they actually *
> were* divine.
>
> The Jews were a warring people, militant and nationalistic, always had
> been and up to that time.  They needed to be, because they were deeply
> xenophobic as a people and were always being oppressed anyway.  They had to
> fight.  And so they did.  Even amongst each other, which is what was
> occurring in Judea during the 100 years prior to the Roman War, a 100 years
> which was coincident with Rome's expansion around the area, and idiots like
> the Herod's giving some welcome to the Romans.
>
> Vespasian as a general sent by Nero momentarily silenced the Jews, then
> went back to Rome later to assume emperorness, and his son Titus cleaned
> Judean house, where he further united the Flavian House with the important
> Jewish Houses of the Herods and Alexanders.  Titus then went back to Rome,
> assumed emperorness himself, and got to talking with his new best friend
> Flavius Josephus and a few other intellectuals about keeping the slave Jews
> passive for once in their life.
>
> A big clue was that around then things in Jewish society really reached a
> fevered pitch about the coming of the Christ messiah who would kick ass and
> set them free, preferably once and for all.  Somebody who linked to their
> greatest warrior David.  What they got was a pro-Rome pacifist called Jesus.
>
> In a single stroke of supreme literary genius, the Tituses decided to give
> the Jews their Messiah, and to write him as having lived 40 years prior,
> and who's actions would symbolize Titus's campaign in Judea, thereby making
> Jesus, basically Titus.  And so the new Christians would actuality be
> worshiping Titus as their Christ by their worship of a fictional Jesus.
>
> All the biggie church scholars, Tertullian, Justin Martyr, Cyprian etc.
> were unanimous hailing Flavius Josephus' description of Judea's destruction
> by Titus in his famous War of the Jews *proof* that Jesus's prophecies
> came to pass.
>
>  A few heartening and amusing quotes:
>
> "If anyone compares the words of our Saviour with the other accounts of
> the historian [Josephus] concerning the whole war, how can one fail to
> wonder, and to admit that the foreknowledge and the prophecy of our Saviour
> were truly divine and marvelously Strange."
> Eusebius, 325ce, and then again:
> "And when He was now getting near Jerusalem...He came into full view of
> the city, He wept loud over it, and He exclaimed...
> "For the time is coming upon thee when thy foes will throw up around thee
> earthworks and a wall, investing thee and hemming thee in on every side,
> "and level you and your children within you, and they will not leave one
> stone upon another in you; because you did know the time of your
> visitation."
> Luke 19:37-44
>
> Josephus says in War of Jews that Titus ordered his soldiers to "build a
> wall around the whole city" and not merely burn and defile Jerusalem, but
> with "not one stone upon another" as Jesus said, Josephus saying "[Titus]
> gave orders that they should now demolish the entire city and Temple..."
>
> "So you also, when you see all these signs, may be sure that He is
> near--at your very door.
> "I tell you the solemn truth that the present generation will certainly
> not pass away without all these things having first taken place."
> Matt. 24:33-34
>
> And he was so right, with Titus entering Judea 35 years later.
>
> After the Reformation scholars were finally allowed to write down their
> opinions, and nothing had changed: the parallels between the New Testament
> and Josephus's War of the Jews was proof of Christ's divinity.  A Dr. James
> Newton himself agreed with Eusebius that Josephus recorded the absolute
> truth, which was just what Jesus amazingly had *just said*.
>
> "As a general in the wars [Josephus] must have had an exact knowledge of
> all transactions...His history was approved by Vespasian and Titus [who
> ordered it to be published].  He designed nothing less, and yet as if he
> had designed nothing more, his hostory of the Wars of the Jews may serve as
> a larger comment on our Saviour's prophesies of the destruction of
> Jerusalem."
>
> Way to go, Jesus!  What foresight.
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