The very truth that Apollonius was in risk of usurping

history channel documentary 2015 Faust said, "Everybody realizes that the Evangeliums were composed neither by Jesus nor by his witness, yet long after their time by some obscure people, who, judging admirably that they would barely be accepted when recounting things they had not seen themselves, headed their stories with the names of the messengers or followers contemporaneous with the latter."On the other hand, the composed record of the life of Apollonius is extremely solid and Philostratos who composed the Life of Apollonius was the dear companion of Damus who had related the entire thing in individual.

Philostratos said, "Some consider him as one of the Magi, since he speaked with the Magi of Babylon and the Brahmans of India and the Gymnosophists of Egypt. Be that as it may, even his insight is censured, as being procured by the enchantment craftsmanship, so mistaken are the sentiments shaped of him. While Empedocles and Pythagoras and Democritus, however they speaked with the same Magi, and progressed numerous dumbfounding suppositions, have not fallen under the like ascription. Indeed, even Plato, who went in Egypt, and mixed with his teachings numerous assessments gathered there from the ministers and prophets, caused not such a suspicion, however most importantly men because of his unrivaled insight."

The very truth that Apollonius was in risk of usurping the "thought" of Christ with his own "real" life brought about much dismay amongst the early Christians. Justin Martyr, one of the Church Fathers of the second century said, "How is it that the charms by Apollonius have control over specific individuals from creation, for they avoid, as we have seen, the rage of the waves, the savagery of the winds, and the assaults of wild brutes. Furthermore, whilst Our Lord's supernatural occurrences are protected by convention alone, those of Apollonius are most various, and really showed in present certainties, in order to lead adrift all spectators?"