kirk cameron
Out of context: Reply #102
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- jakeyj0
"You've never read any (intentional) fiction at all, have you? _LotR_, and thousands of other books, are crammed full of details, including invented languages. I guess it's all real too!"
I'm talking about documents that are claiming to be actual history. LOTR is awesome though
"Three contradictory accounts of who was there and when, that's pretty damaging for a so-called historically accurate document."
If you read them really though, they are not contradictory, but rather complimentary.
"Pliny the Younger was born 30 years after Jesus died, Josephus about 4 years -- hardly living eye witnesses, they could only chronicle what others claimed happened. And there's compelling evidence that Josephus' "golden paragraph" was added years (as many as 300, the reign of Constantine) later"
Nice bit of research. And to what do you trust this little bit of history? Namely the births of Pliny and Josephus? other historical documents of course. besides, the fact still remains that those who were reading Josephus' writings could have easily verified the truthfulness of his writings with people who were still alive that witnessed the events!