Posted: Apr 30, 2017 8:41 pm
Leucius Charinus wrote:
I am inclined to suggest that the Pliny - Trajan, Tacitus and Suetonius references to Christians are fabrications of the middle age church corporation - which was utterly corrupt. See my notes on each:
http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/i ... ians.htm...
It must not be forgotten that the term "Christian" does not inherently mean only followers of Jesus or only believers in Jesus stories. If there were cult leaders who called themselves the Anointed One [Christ] then their followers could be called Christians.
In addition Jewish High Priest were called Christ [the Anointed] hundreds of years before Jesus fiction stories were invented.
In any event, the term Anointed [Christ] was used in writings hundreds of years before the 1st century.
Leucius Charinus wrote:Josephus and Philo were not preserved other than by the church, so there's not any independence. Most people grant that Eusebius corrupted Josephus. The manuscripts of Philo are also not without their difficulties, especially for example "On the Contemplative Life".
There is no actual evidence that the writings of Philo were corrupted by the 4th century Roman Church. The writings attributed to Philo do not mention any person called Jesus the Christ, the twelve disciples, the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles of Paul, James, Jude, John and Peter or bishops of Rome and anywhere else.