Following the destruction of the temple, some of the 18,000 priests who had previously worked there were, presumably, still alive and would have needed to seek new employment.The first Christian priests may have been hired from the remnants of the enormous group that had once ministered to the now destroyed temple.
However these facts may be, the Roman version of Judaism was introduced to the masses by some group of wicked priests who had been employed by the Flavians to preach the Gospels a word that technically means good news of military victory.The first people to hear the story of Jesus would most likely have been slaves, whose patrons simply ordered them to attend services.After a while some began to believe, then many. (page 310)
The parallels between the ministry and the campaign of the two sons of God do not merely often occur in the same locations, but in the same sequence.This is the clearest proof that Titus left for us proof he left so we would see that he had succeeded in his efforts to make the Jews call him Lord, proof he left that he had become the Christ that Christianity would worship for thousands of years. (page 389)
The discovery of the Flavian invention of Christianity creates a new understanding of the entire first century C.E.
- Christianity
did not originate among the lower classes in Judea.It was a
creation of a Roman imperial family, the Flavians.
- The Gospels were not written by the followers of a Jewish Messiah but by the intellectual circle surrounding the three Flavian emperors: Vespasian and his two sons, Titus and Domitian.
- The Gospels were written following the 66-73 C.E. war between the Romans and the Jews, and many of the events of Jesus ministry are satirical depictions of events from that war.
- The purpose of Christianity was supersession [supersede-to replace].It was designed to replace the nationalistic and militaristic messianic movement in Judea with a religion that was pacifistic and would accept Roman rule. (page 19)
Understanding that Christianity was a government project will help produce a new understanding of government. (page 20)
The Gospels were designed to become apparent as satire as soon as they were read in conjunction with Wars of the Jews.[T]he four Gospels and Wars of the Jewswere created as a unified piece of literature whose characters and stories interact.Their interaction gives many of Jesus sayings a darkly comical meaning (page 44)
The authors of the
New Testament and Josephus created what might be called historys first
intelligence test.The consequence for failing it is belief in a
false god. (page 173)
In any event, Jesus advocacy of
accepting ones plight and of pacifism, were certainly principles that the
Flavians would wish to have taught the rebellious Judea.If one
separates from the words of Jesus the advice that was in the interest of the
imperial family, all that remains are truisms, widely known philosophies, and
snippets from previous Judaic writing.
what has been seen as most
original about Jesus his instruction to love ones enemy was the aspect of
his ministry that was most evil. (page 348)
[T]he Flavians possessed
both the motivation and the capacity to create a version of Judaism aligned
with their interests.Any honest seeker of Christianitys origin
must, therefore, at least consider the possibility that the Flavians produced
the Gospels.Further, the core of Jesus prophecies the Galilean
villages laid low, Jerusalem encircled with a wall, the temple left with not
a single stone atop another, and the wicked generation destroyed all share
one characteristic.Each is a military victory of the Flavian
family.Thus, the oft-cited principle that history is written by the
victors suggests that that family should be the first group we investigate. (pages
45-46)
Endnotes
39. Josephus,WarsIII, x,
463, 466-467, 526-527
40. Juvenal,The Sixteen Satires,
4
41. Josephus,WarsIII, x,
516, 520
66. The following quote from Bruce Chilton is
an example.
Some have sought to get around the force of
this text by saying that the word generation here really means race, and that
Jesus was simply saying that the Jewish race would not die out until all these
things took place.Is that true?I challenge you: Get out
your concordance and look up every New Testament occurrence of the word
generation (in Greek,genea) and see if it ever means race in any
other context.Here are all the references for the Gospels: Matthew
1:17; 11:16; 12:39, 41, 42, 45; 16:4; 17:17; 23:36; 24:34; Mark 8:12, 38; 9:19;
13:30; Luke 1:48, 50; 7:31; 9:41; 11:29, 30, 31, 32, 50, 51; 18:8; 17:35;
21:32.Not one of these references is speaking of the entire Jewish
race over thousands of years; all use the word in its normal sense of the sum
total of those living at the same time.It always refers to
contemporaries.In fact, those who say it means race tend to
acknowledge the fact, but explain that the word suddenly changes its meaning
when Jesus uses it in Matthew 24!Bruce Chilton,What
Happened in AD70?Kingdom Publications, 1997, p 89
67. The 1599 Geneva Bible
106. Josephus,WarsVI, iii,
209, 212
164. Brian Jones,The Emperor Titus,
St. Martins Press, 1984, p 152
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Why did the Romans Persecute
Christians?Joseph Atwill (5 October 2016)
In order to give their new Christianity a believable history, the Romans stole the positions of authority and the fates of the rebel leaders Simon and John.They made these individuals into Simon and John the disciples of Jesus Christ.The true history shows us that while the Romans did persecute Christians, these were Jewish zealots, not Roman Christians.
[I[f Romans invented Christianity why did they persecute Christians?The question reflects the success the Romans had in confusing people as to who a Christian was.
The term Christian simple means follower of a Christ a leader claiming to have been foreseen by the Jews messianic prophecies.The word Kristos is Greek for the Hebrew word Messiah.So while the Romans did indeed persecute Christians in the way that history recorded, these were not Roman Christians but Jewish zealots.
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