Their were many Christs that records say full filled the prophecies not just Jesus. The name Jesus is not even recorded by the Romans but yet they record the other Christ??? does that not open up questions in ones mind?
Of course, it indicates that secular references to "Christ" are based ultimately on Christian usage, rather than independent secular historical sources (which would not referred to him as such). And while khristos was a title that could refer to high priests or "Messiahs" in general (for the former, see Daniel 9 in the Greek, for the latter see the pseudokhristoi of the synoptic apocalypse), only Jesus was described as "crucified" in Judea by Christians....as the "Christ" referred to by Tacitus and Lucian was also described. I notice that you say "the name Jesus was not even recorded by the Romans but yet they record the OTHER Christ?" Why do you assume that the "Christ" mentioned in secular authors as the "God" (cf. Pliny) or founder of Christianity was some "other Christ" than Jesus?
In short, where is the evidence supporting Bushby's claim that there was some other Christ who was a contender for Christianity's god, that up to AD 325 "Christianity did not have an official god," and that in AD 210 there was an attempt to deify "Judas Khrestus or his twin brother Rabbi Jesus"? I've asked you several times to provide the basis for such claims; I'm still very interested in seeing it. Because I have never seen a whit of evidence that anyone else was referred to as "Christ" in the voluminous writings of the early church, that the non-orthodox gospels construed someone else as the Christ, or even the name "Judas Khrestus" which appears to have been invented by Bushby. Rather, Bushby appears to be fabricating stories out of whole cloth. What is the basis of this little episode:
"Judas Khrestus was tried on a charge of treason against the Romans, found guilty of revolutionary activity and sentenced to die by crucifixion As a Roman citizen of noble heritage, Judas Khrestus then 'appealed to the Emperor', Caligula, as was his right, but to no avail. The death penalty stood. This was the year 37. Being aware of his royal blood, Judas Khrestus then exercised an age-old tradition that came with his birthright. This advantage allowed him to order the placement of a 'substitute' to take his allocated punishment.. He played the substitution card at the expense of his 'birthright' which now passed to the second born, his twin brother, Rabbi Jesus" (The Bible Fraud, p. 86).
Like Bushby's fabricated story about the council of Nicea, this is simply a story that Bushby made up. Please inform me what historical sources Bushby uses to support this. It seems that he uses Suetonius as a sliver of historical support (that during the reign of Claudius, there was a Jewish rebel named Chrestus in Rome), but where is the evidence that 1) this "Chrestus" was named Judas, 2) that this "Chrestus" mentioned by Suetonius was the twin brother of Jesus, 3) that "Judas Chrestus" appealed to the Emperor Caligula to no avail (btw, the "Chrestus" of Suetonius as active in the days of Claudius, not Caligula), 4) that "Judas Chrestus" was of royal blood as the son of Emperor Tiberius, 5) that "Judas Khrestus" got his brother Jesus to die in his place and this is the "Jesus" of Christianity, 6) that "Jesus" and "Chrestus" were not identified with each other, or "Jesus" was not regarded as the "Christ" until the council of Nicea, 7) that an attempt was made in AD 210 to deify "Judas Chrestus", 8) that bishops at the Council of Nicea voted for either Judas or Jesus to become the "Christ" of Christianity.
Why does Bushby have to make stuff up? I know you say you've gone to your college library and checked all this stuff out and it's all out there in the history books.....well, I've been reading and reading primary source materials of early Christianity for now almost two decades, and I can assure you I've seen nothing remotely likely the story that Bushby invents. Could you please just post some of the "evidence" that Bushby uses so we can get a discussion going?
