Last Notes
"Jesus never existed. He was a Jewish psyop."
Four of his loudest ancient critics weren't Jewish, and not one of them claimed he was invented.
Tacitus (Roman senator, c. AD 116) records Christus executed under Pontius Pilate, and calls the Christians a hated mob.
Pliny the Younger (Roman governor, AD 112) tortured Christians who worshipped "Christ as to a god."
Lucian (Syrian satirist, 2nd century) sneers at the "crucified sophist" and his gullible followers.
Celsus (pagan philosopher, c. AD 178) wrote an entire book attacking Christianity and never once suggested Iēsous was fictional.
A Roman senator, a Roman governor, a Syrian satirist, a pagan philosopher. All hostile, none sympathetic and none with a motive to promote him. If he were a fabrication, they had every reason to say so. Instead they treated him as a real man who was executed and a nuisance.
Reject the resurrection if you like but you can't pretend he wasn't there.
"Jesus never existed. He was a Jewish psyop."
Four of his loudest ancient critics weren't Jewish, and not one of them claimed he was invented.
Tacitus (Roman senator, c. AD 116) records Christus executed under Pontius Pilate, and calls the Christians a hated mob.
Pliny the Younger (Roman governor, AD 112) tortured Christians who worshipped "Christ as to a god."
Lucian (Syrian satirist, 2nd century) sneers at the "crucified sophist" and his gullible followers.
Celsus (pagan philosopher, c. AD 178) wrote an entire book attacking Christianity and never once suggested Iēsous was fictional.
A Roman senator, a Roman governor, a Syrian satirist, a pagan philosopher. All hostile, none sympathetic and none with a motive to promote him. If he were a fabrication, they had every reason to say so. Instead they treated him as a real man who was executed and a nuisance.
Reject the resurrection if you like but you can't pretend he wasn't there.
Once you see the lies, you see the liars. The toothpaste isn’t going back in the tube. The gig is up, Judaizers.
Jesus’ Father is the one you claim “he is our God,” yet you don’t know Him. We know Him through Jesus—once unknown, now known.
All those before Jesus were liars.
“The god of generation (Yahweh) no longer made the purblind Isaac see clearly, but our Lord (Iēsous), since he is good, opened the eyes of many blind people.”
—Megethius
The Jews who rejected Jesus (Iēsous) as their Messiah did so for a reason—nothing he did ticked the boxes. Even the disciples were confused most of the time by what Jesus (Iēsous) was doing and saying because it didn’t align.
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The best lie is wrapped around a kernel of truth. So when you wake up to just how much of history, government and religion was curated for you, the temptation is to call it all a lie. But that's just faith inverted.
Truth survives inside the lie, but no amount of human reasoning can tell one from the other. That discernment belongs to the Father's Spirit alone.
They wouldn't bury something this deep unless it was worth finding.
I’d rather be a heretic than a follower of the one Jesus (Iēsous) called the Father of lies.
Yahweh is fickle and inconsistent, forbidding what he commands and commanding what he forbids.
