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Old July 4th, 2011 #10
Zeth O. Grady
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I have to tell you that several of those "letters" on that website are modern forgeries.

1. There are no contemporary references to Jesus Christ in the historical or archaeological record. None whatsoever. So there is no record of what "Jesus Christ" looked like. The four gospel accounts of Jesus' life were written in the late 1st century or possibly as late as the middle of the 2nd century. The four gospels are not eye witness accounts(obviously), nor do they claim to be. They are also completely anonymous. They were not written by four people named "Matthew", "Mark", "Luke", and "John", nor do they claim to be.

2. The passages in Josephus' writings about Jesus were exposed as crude 4th century forgeries over 100 years ago. Josephus was not alive during the alleged lifetime of Jesus. Josephus was born in 37. Jesus was allegedly crucified sometime between 30-33. So Josephus was not even close to being a contemporary of Jesus. Also note that even if the passages in Josephus were authentic, it wouldn't provide any kind of proof for a historical Jesus, because Josephus would merely have been repeating what he was told by Christians who were living in his day, many decades after Jesus' alleged death.

3. There were many historians and philosophers(Jewish, Greek, and Roman) who lived and wrote during the time frame in which Jesus allegedly lived. Guess what they had to say about the miracle man from Galilee? Absolutely nothing. On the subject of Jesus, all these writers are completely silent.