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Old 03-08-2018, 01:30 PM   #5726
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Jesus's Death Part IV

Another major and very obvious reason that the Jewish religious establishment of Jesus' day would have taken a very proactive role in killing the Jesus messiah rumors or stories is because those "phony stories" (or in today's vernacular (fake news) actually gained steam and lots of legs, thereby rapidly gaining grassroots support first among Jews in Palestine, then eventually throughout the Roman Empire. In other words, this "fake news" about Jesus being the crucified messiah not only became a real threat to the established religion of orthodox Judaism itself, but it actually succeeded in dividing first century Jews! Would not the religious establishment have taken an active interest in its own self-preservation!? It is inconceivable to think that the orthodox Jews would have passively sat on their hands to allow the spread of this "fake news" by the Jesus sect. But if you're a mythicist, then very obviously this is what the orthodox Jews did because they failed miserably in dousing the zealous fires of evangelism by the Jesus sect. There is not so much as one first century document that has been unearthed that would tell us that the religious establishment aggressively refuted the fake news and heresies of the Jesus sect, even though this fake news was aggressively and successfully propagated throughout Palestine and the Roman world.

Further, there is no record of the Jewish religious establishment enlisting the aid of the mighty Roman Empire to help them in putting down these dangerous Jesus rabble-rousers. What would have prevented the religious establishment from currying favor with Pontius Pilate? They certainly knew how to play politics, generally, and the Caesar card in particular (see Jn 19:12-15; Act 17:7). Why didn't they enlist the aid of Pontius Pilate? All they would have had to do was tell them that the fake news of the Jesus sect is preaching a false messiah (i.e. king!) and that this phony, make-believe, made up king is gaining legs among the unwashed masses and threatens the Palestine Jews' loyalty to Caesar, since this sect was preaching another king! Yes, Pontius Pilate might have rolled his eyes -- but would he not have acted on the local level, and kept the problem local instead of risking news of these Jesus rabble-rousers actually reaching the ears of Caesar? Would Pilate risk putting himself in a bad light by appearing incompetent with the Emperor of Rome? I think not. It's very likely, that even if Pilate sensed that the establishment Jews could be manipulating him, he would have gone in CYA mode -- just in case. He could always get back at the manipulators at a later date which would be greatly preferable to dealing with Caesar. But again...there is not one single first century record that Pontius Pilate or Rome itself intervened on behalf of the orthodox Jews, or acted in its own interest to subdue the spread of the fake news by the Jesus sect in first century Palestine.

So...if we believe the lies of the mythicists, at the end of the day we are supposed to infer and believe that the first century Jewish religious establishment just allowed the rabble-rousing Jesus sect to preach its fake news with insolence. They were willing to just let the chips fall where they may, not at all really concerned about preserving their own power, or the orthodoxy of their own religion or in defending their covenant God's integrity in spite of the blasphemous implications of the preaching of the fake news. The establishment just let things get out of control. And they were too proud to enlist the aid of Pontius Pilate to boot. The establishment Jews just rolled the dice and took their chances; and we see the outcome of that decision to this very day. Christianity blossomed into a world-wide religion. And we have the first century Jews to blame for that. They are the ones who stupidly allowed the Jesus "myth" to exponentially grow way beyond their control. The establishment Jews had their chance kill the fake news, but they blew it.

This kind of inference can only make sense to mythicists who who are missing more than a few brain cells.
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