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Old 07-28-2013, 09:55 AM   #891
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Please, identify where exactly that Aristides claimed the 12 disciples of Jesus were Jewish.

I can't find such a statement in Aristides' Apology.
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Seriously? You are going to now claim that the original 12 disciples according to Aristides were Gentiles!!?

The Jewishness of the twelve disiples isn't explicitly stated by Aristides, but it is clearly implied. First, it says Jesus was Hebrew and the gospel was preached 'among THEM' for a 'short time'. Who is THEM? The Jews. How could it be referring to the Gentiles when the writer only is mentioning Jewish origins? Second, why would Jesus have twelve NON-JEWISH disciples which are obviously supposed to have corresponded to the twelve tribes of Israel? That would make no sense.
Again, you are incapable of producing any passage in Aristides' Apology where he claimed the 12 disciples were Jewish.

Your arguments are based on non-existing evidence inundated with blatant speculation which are logically barren.

I have already pointed out to you that Justin wrote that the doctrines of the Jesus cult were regarded as Godless, Lawless and Unholy by Jews.

Now, Justin would also admit that the Jews did NOT acknowledge that the Christ had already come.

So, up to the mid 2nd century the Jews did NOT invent stories about Jesus the Christ.

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And when I had finished these words, I continued: "Now I am aware that your teachers, sirs, admit the whole of the words of this passage to refer to Christ; and I am likewise aware that they maintain He has not yet come; or if they say that He has come, they assert that it is not known who He is; but when He shall become manifest and glorious, then it shall be known who He is.

And then, they say, the events mentioned in this passage shall happen, just as if there was no fruit as yet from the words of the prophecy.
Again, Tertullian wrote AFTER Aristides and Justin and also ADMITTED that the Jews did not acknowledge the advent of Jesus up to at least the END of the 2nd century.

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.....Therefore, since the Jews still contend that the Christ is not yet come, whom we have in so many ways approved to be come, let the Jews recognise their own fate—a fate which they were constantly foretold as destined to incur after the advent of the Christ, on account of the impiety with which they despised and slew Him.
It was the Gentiles that Concocted the story that Jesus the Christ had already come and that the Jews KILLED the Son of God and Messiah since the time of Pilate.

The Godless, Lawless, Unholy story of Jesus did NOT originate with Jews.

It was the GENTILES who fabricated the Blasphemy.
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Again, you are incapable of producing any passage in Aristides' Apology where he claimed the 12 disciples were Jewish.
Yep. All I could rely on was the use of intelligence. Sorry if that offended you.


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I have already pointed out to you that Justin wrote that the doctrines of the Jesus cult were regarded as Godless, Lawless and Unholy by Jews.
If you believed Justin, why not Aristides, your own source? Your selectivity is random and self-serving.

In order to avoid going on self-ban again, I will have to avoid paying any more attention to you, as it is clear there it nothing worthwhile I am able to learn from you due to the methods you choose to employ, whether they be disingenuous or simply foolish.
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Again, you are incapable of producing any passage in Aristides' Apology where he claimed the 12 disciples were Jewish.
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Yep. All I could rely on was the use of intelligence. Sorry if that offended you.
What!!! Your presumptions and unsubstatiated claims are the results of your use of intelligence.

Aristides claimed that God came down from heaven, lived in the daughter of man and had 12 disciples and you presumed that they were Jewish.

Please!!! God had 12 Jewish disciples?? What intelligence you use??

The Jesus story is pure unadulterated Mythology like those of the Jews, Greeks and Romans.

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I have already pointed out to you that Justin wrote that the doctrines of the Jesus cult were regarded as Godless, Lawless and Unholy by Jews.
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If you believed Justin, why not Aristides, your own source? Your selectivity is random and self-serving.

In order to avoid going on self-ban again, I will have to avoid paying any more attention to you, as it is clear there it nothing worthwhile I am able to learn from you due to the methods you choose to employ, whether they be disingenuous or simply foolish.
Your pattern of argument is extremely predictable. As soon as your fallacies are exposed you either get angry or run away.

So far you have shown that you have very limited knowledge of the writings of antiquity and cannot support your claims about Josephus and Aristides.

Now, let me continue to demolish your fallacies with intelligence.

There are multiple GENTILE writers of the Jesus cult who wrote that the Jews did NOT acknowledge any character called Jesus as the Christ and did NOT acknowledge the Advent of the Messiah up to the mid 3rd century.

If the Jews did NOT accept Jesus as the Christ and did NOT accept his advent then how in the world could the Jews have started the Jesus cult?

Examine the writings of Hippolytus.

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...... as the Jews were not cognizant of the period of His advent, there remains the supposition that the declarations (of Scripture) concerning His coming have not been fulfilled.

And so it is, that up to this day they continue in anticipation of the future coming of the Christ,— from the fact of their not discerning Him when He was present in the world.
Once intelligence is used it can be easily deduced that the Jews did NOT start the Jesus cult up to the time of Hippolytus or sometime around the 3rd century.


Let me use intelligence once again.

Examine the writings of Origen.

Origen's Against Celsus 2.74-75
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......And observe whether it is not entirely in keeping with the character of the same people, who formerly refused to believe such wonders and such appearances of divinity, throughout the whole period of wandering in the wilderness, as they are recorded in the law of the Jews to have done, to refuse to be convinced also, on occasion of the glorious advent of Jesus, by the mighty words which were spoken by Him with authority, and the marvels which He performed in the presence of all the people.

75. I think what has been stated is enough to convince any one that the unbelief of the Jews with regard to Jesus was in keeping with what is related of this people from the beginning.
It is extremely intelligent to deduce that the Jews did NOT start the Godless, Lawless and Unholy story of Jesus based on Aristides, Justin, Tertullian, Hippolytus and Origen.

It was the GENTILES who concocted the blasphemy called Jesus the Son of God.

We know WHAT, WHO, WHEN and WHY the Jesus cult was started.
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We know WHAT, WHO, WHEN and WHY the Jesus cult was started.
Why was it done, by which I mean, what was the motivation?
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It was the GENTILES who concocted the blasphemy called Jesus the Son of God.

The term gentiles and the term Greeks are both used (often interchangeably) in the earliest Greek bible codices.


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Why was it done, by which I mean, what was the motivation?


Why not start with the usual (political) motivations for such a practice in antiquity?

Namely, that the ruler(s) found it useful.


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The term gentiles and the term Greeks are both used (often interchangeably) in the earliest Greek bible codices.

Ah, you mean Hellenist.



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Unfounded, and unjustifiable.
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The term gentiles and the term Greeks are both used (often interchangeably) in the earliest Greek bible codices.
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We know WHAT, WHO, WHEN and WHY the Jesus cult was started.
Why was it done, by which I mean, what was the motivation?
Why not start with the usual (political) motivations for such a practice in antiquity?
Why not?--because, judging by track record, anything suggested by another poster is liable to be rejected by aa5874 as a monstrous misinterpretation.
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Why not?--because, judging by track record, anything suggested by another poster is liable to be rejected by aa5874 as a monstrous misinterpretation.
Please, your track has been exposed. You invent stuff.
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Why not?--because, judging by track record, anything suggested by another poster is liable to be rejected by aa5874 as a monstrous misinterpretation.
Please, your track has been exposed. You invent stuff.
See what I mean?
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Why not?--because, judging by track record, anything suggested by another poster is liable to be rejected by aa5874 as a monstrous misinterpretation.
Please, your track has been exposed. You invent stuff.
See what I mean?
It's so predictable. Yet so outlandish that I never ceased to be amazed by it. It's like watching a movie that is so ridiculous you just have to see what happens next...mildly entertaining but a total waste of time otherwise, for very little productive or good comes from it.
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