Seventy

In first century Common Era Judea, the Torah compliant, temple adherent Jews, followed a yearly ritual of animal sacrifice at the temple altar. In their theology, this was the only ritual that would assure the forgiveness of sins. It had been that way for centuries. In August of the year seventy, the unthinkable happened. Jerusalem was sacked by the Romans, and the temple complex was destroyed; along with it, the only means of sin forgiveness. What to do? This book forwards a thesis on what happened next, and how that event was the pivotal trigger for the creation of what became the canonical gospels. It was the initiation of the motive to construct a new sin forgiveness process. That process was the conception of a fictional Jesus figure, now accepted worldwide as factual. Some facts are so unpalatable, that they are considered taboo; an issue not to be broached. But this book does broach this major taboo issue, and states a claim that Christendom will not relish