Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus

00:00:00 The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus

00:03:40 The penny dropped that Jesus, as a human being, never existed! Kenneth Humpreys - historian and author "Jesus Never Existed"

00:06:59 who completely reshape the Roman Empire.

00:10:55 And those books contained what are known as the Jewish Messianic Prophecies.

00:14:40 And, of course, he did. So, Vespasian quite liked Josephus.

00:18:09 not the pacifistic version depicted in the Gospels.

00:21:13 chief propagandist of the Flavian dynasty.

00:24:32 At the same time, they're creating a whole mythology

00:27:58 as some scholar says, if the Gospels really were Jewish literature

00:31:22 of a conspiracy to write the New Testament.

00:34:36 they would not have had the literate skills to write them anyway.

00:38:12 that is to say before the first Jewish war

00:41:41 You enter a strange twilight zone of early Christian belief.

00:44:54 is the elements that will later become the Jesus story.

00:48:15 The reason I'm now convinced there's no historical Jesus

00:51:26 And so, the only individual, that could possibly be the Son of Man

00:55:00 there are actually many clues pointing to the Flavian origin of Christianity.

00:58:27 "All the men are dead who sought your life"

01:02:06 This is a parallel to Titus' battle at Gadara

01:05:20 Educated readers were expected to be able to see another meaning

01:08:47 To catalog the many parallels, I gave each one a convenient name that

01:11:44 Jesus tells his disciples: "Take, eat, this is my body, this is my blood. "

01:14:51 So, that's not the real reason.

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