The various works by Freke and Gandy easily prove the Jesus story is not original, and is also a fabrication. Expect an attack of the messenger and not the message from the Jesus apologists.
Since there are also no writings of a CONTEMPORARY historian to the time of the supposed James of the supposed brother of the supposed Jesus, the point is moot anyway as to who Josephus was talking about, since there is no independant evidence, it's all hearsay. Again, a house of cards easily...
Even the unknown writers of the NT didn't imply the second coming could be thousand of years into the future. They implied it would be in their generation. Of course, it didn't happen. Thus the obvious "twist" of the story later on to make people think it could be anytime in the future. Just...
If you're programming for "intelligent life", the model would have to be as large as the universe, since the underlying forces are both chaotic and random. In any case, one is bascially positing a "creator" here, not a "programmer".:D
Exactly who Paul was is open to question, since not all books in the NT attributed to him were written by the same author. In any case, the "real" Paul obvoiusly never heard of or saw a physical Jesus, as he never references any of his teachings.:D
Your post is illogical. The Jesus story is an obvious myth becaues we know nothing about the supposed man.
1. When he was born.
2. When he died.
3. Nobody can point to a SPECIFIC man in history and say, yep, that was Jesus.
4. The little "evidence" claimed to support the existence is either...
A few parallels.
Prophesied birth
Sun
Jesus
Buddha
[Earthly] father was a carpenter
Jesus
Krishna
Was given gifts at birth
Jesus
Buddha
Krishna
Birth was accompanied by "wise men" and/or angles
Sun /
Mushroom
Jesus
Buddha
Horus /...
Any system must be modeled to be programmed, in this case, the model would have to be as large as the universe, a best inefficient, at worst, impossible.
Which is why, logically, the "BIBLICAL" jesus could not have existed, the gospels are full of miracles, complete fariy tales. ALso, nobody can point to anyone specific in history and say, yep, that was Jesus. They can only "surmise" the gospel tales were based upon some real living person, from...