Roman Guards for Truth to publish Anti Jesus Book

[RobertSeattle]

In their new bombshell book, "Unfit to be the Messiah", they will contend

- Jesus was just asking for it - he never made any attempt to escape or resist arrest.

- Several of Jesus' injuries on the cross were superficial - they required not one hour of hospitalization

- None of Jesus disciplines would agree to be crucified with him - what does this say about this so called Christ?

- Jesus rises from the dead 3 days later, then disappears - what a coward!

:evilgrin:

[Catch22Dem]

1. That wins best post of the night

I'll take that one to bed w/ me!

[rooboy]

2. The whole thing was staged - he even predicted the damn thing...

and he was probably French. When asked to produce his birth certificate, all he could do was come up with some lame excuse that he was born in a barn...

[drhilarius]

3. His best friend denied him three times...

what does that say about his ability to keep alliance?.

[happyslug]

4. In Greek, Latin or Aramaic?

Remember Pontius Pilate was of the Equestrian Class (The class between the Patrician and Proletarian Classes of Roman Society). The Equestrian Class is often called Roma's "Middle Class" but that is not quite right, it had its rich and poor people in it. It was a group of closely related people who tended to control the running of Business (and Government) of the Roman World.

One of the duties of the Equestrian Class was to command any and all Auxiliary forces in the Roman Army (i.e. NON-Roman Troops in the service of Rome). During the Roman Republic tax collection from non-Romans was given to the Equestrians and under Augustus Caesar these "Procurators" started to become rulers of Roman Provinces where no ROMAN troop were maintained.

Thus Pontius Pilate as a Equestrian Procurator of the Roman Provence of Judea had NO ROMAN TROOPS UNDER HIS COMMAND. We also know from Josephus that when Pontius Pilate first became Procurator he tried to exchange troops from Caeserea (on the Coast of Judea) with troops stationed in Jerusalem. This caused a protest/riot for the troops on the coast treated their standards as "gods" while the Troops in Jerusalem did not view their standards as "gods" (Pilate reversed the Order upon seeing the protest and kept the troops as they were). This imply the troops on the Coast were Greeks in Roman Service, while the Troops in Jerusalem were Jews in Roman Service.

What this means is the Troops Pontius Pilate had available to him at the time of Christ's execution were probably Jewish in background (through under Roman p Pay and maybe even Roman Equestrian Command). This does not completely exclude the Greeks, while the Cohorts in Jerusalem may have been Jewish, it is possible that a small ban (A Company or smaller unit) of Greeks may have been in Jerusalem to protect Pontius Pilate AND to do may real dirty work he wanted done (such as carry out executions and Punishments).

Thus it is doubtful that the "Roman Guards" spoke Latin, but will the paper be in Greek or Aramaic (The language spoken by the Jews of the Time of Christ)?

[onebigbadwulf]

5. The Da Vinci code had a more compelling argument

read it. You can do it in 2 days.