Medini wrote:

CBY quoted from Josephus as follows:
And this very thing it is that principally creates such a wonderful agreement of minds amongst us all; for this entire agreement of ours in all our notions concerning God...

You responded:
He does not mention the idea of the complex or absolute unity of God and so you can't use this passage to support your claim that such an issue was not a point of consideration to Jews of his day.

I would like to point out that while Josephus doesn't mention this specifically here, he does assert that there is complete agreement among Jews of his day concerning all notions about G-d. Now, look at Philo, who was well known to Josephus (cf. Antiquities xviii.8, 1; comp. ib. xix.5, 1; xx.5, 2), and you will see an explicit statement that G-d is a SIMPLE not complex unity:

"G-d is alone, a unity in the sense that His nature is simple... (Legum allegoriae II:1-3)

So, logically, when Josephus writes this, this wonderful accord among Jews corresponds to what Philo asserts - namely, the absolute simple unity of G-d.


Jews and Christians should recognize just how devastating Philo and Josephus are to mainstream Trinitarian thought (or whatever they call it today). The NT tells us that Paul and company preached in synagogues. How likely is it they would have been tolerated long in synagogues teaching a complex unity or trinity? They wouldn't have made it past many synagogues at all and they would have been barred within a week of starting. This lends credence to the fact that the earliest christians were like the Jews of their day - and today - strict and radical monotheists.

They couldn't have possibly preached Jesus = god in any synagogues for long. Acts 15 allegedly teaches that gentiles were expected to be Noahides in order to "fellowship" into the mainstream synagogues where "Moses was preached". No way, no how could this have happened either THEN or even NOW if christians were and still are trinitarians.

If christians were tossed out of synagogues around 90 ACE it was because only THEN was the movement becoming more idolatrous (trinitarian). From Jesus' death to 90 ACE is roughly 60 years. During THAT time, gentile christians were Noahides and weren't idolatrous in the eyes of the Jewish nation. As Josephus and Philo put it, everyone was of one accord about God's simple unity. It took about 60 years for original christianity to morph into an idolatrous sect run by gentiles - and it's been like that ever since.

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