Rom. 13:2-6
Josephus shared Pauls belief that the Romans were Gods servants and only inflicted punishment upon evil-doers.
Indeed what can it be that hath stirred up an army of the Romans against our nation?Is it not the impiety of the inhabitants?Whence did our servitude commence?
Was it not derived from our seditions that were among our forefathers when God reduced those under subjection to the Romans who were unworthy of the liberty they had enjoyed?6
Thus, the only works that describe first-century Judea share a positive viewpoint toward Rome.Why is it that only they have survived?
[T]he New Testament and the works of Josephus survived because they were both created and promulgated by Rome.[T]he Gospels were created by Titus Flavius, the second of the three Flavian emperors.Titus created the religion for two reasons, the most obvious being to act as a theological barrier against the spread of the militant messianic Judaism of Judea to other provinces.
Josephus mentions this threat in Wars of the Jews:
the Jews hoped that all of their nation, which were beyond Euphrates, would have raised an insurrection with them.7
Titus had another, more personal, reason for creating the Gospels this being that the Jewish Zealots refused to worship him as a god.Though he was able to crush their rebellion, Titus could not force the Zealots, even through torture or death, to call him Lord.
Josephus noted the staunchness with which the Zealots adhered to their monotheistic faith [monotheism- the belief that there is only one god], stating that the Sicarii do not value dying and any kind of death, nor indeed do they heed the dying of their relations, nor can any fear make them call any man Lord.8
[T]o circumvent the Jews stubbornness, Titus designed a hidden message within the Gospels.This message reveals that the Jesus who interacted with the disciples following the crucifixion was not a Jewish Messiah, but himself.Unable to torture the Jews into foregoing their religion and worshipping him, Titus and his intellectuals created a version of Judaism that worshipped Titus without its followers knowing it.When his clever literary device was finally discovered, Titus would be able to show posterity that he had not failed in his efforts to make the Jews call him Lord.Though always seen as a religious document, the New Testament is actually a political document a monument to the vanity of a Caesar, one that has finally been discovered.
Titus backdated Jesus ministry to 30 C.E., thereby enabling him to foresee events in the future.In other words, Jesus was able to accurately prophesy events from the coming war with the Romans because they had already occurred.As part of this scheme, the fictitious histories of Josephus were created so as to document the fact that Jesus had lived and that his prophecies had come to pass.
While the above claims will, and should, trigger skepticism, one needs to remember that as Christianity describes its origins, it was not only supernatural but also historically illogical.Christianity, a movement that encouraged pacifism and obedience to Rome, claims to have emerged from a nation engaged in a century-long struggle with Rome.An analogy to Christianitys purported origins might be a cult established by Polish Jews during World War II that set up its headquarters in Berlin and encouraged its members to pay taxes to the Third Reich.
When one looks at the form of early Christianity, one sees not Judea, but Rome.The churchs structures of authority, its sacraments, its college of bishops, the title of the head of the religion the supreme pontiff were all based on Roman, not Judaic, traditions.Somehow, Judea left little trace on the form of a religion that purportedly originated inside of it.
Early Christianity was also Roman in its worldview.That is, like the Roman Empire, the movement saw itself as ordained by God to spread throughout the world.Before Christianity, no religion is known to have seen itself quite so destined to conquer, to become the religion of all mankind.
To try to understand how Christianity established itself within the Roman Empire is to sift through mysteries piled atop the unknown.For example, how did a religion that began as verbal traditions in Hebrew or Aramaic change into one whose surviving scripture is written almost entirely in Greek?According to Albert Schweitzer:
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