dsgrue3 said:
BenVTrigger said:
No, historical evidence.
The fact that during the time of Jesus life and death there were pretty much zero debate in the area whether Jesus lived and was crucified. There was heavy debate over whether he was a man or God but pretty much everyone agreed he was real
Im not even Christian but to say he didnt exist is frankly naive or hoping he didnt exist due to personal belief or bias
|
There is no contemporary historical evidence. Sorry, you're clearly misinformed here.
JakDaSnack said:
"Virtually all modern scholars of antiquity agree that Jesus existed,[1][2][3][4] and although there is little agreement on the historicity of gospel narratives and their theological assertions of his divinity,[5][6][7][8] biblical scholars andclassical historians regard theories of his non-existence as effectively refuted."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
From my experience, the only people who say that Jesus did not exist are ignorant Atheists who refuse to accept that truth. Not saying that that's you, just saying that the majority of Atheists i've encountered online, appear to be ignorant on that topic.
|
See above. I don't care what some mindless book-peddler thinks. (Check your sources, all of them are from authors.)
|
"Since the 18th century a number of quests for the historical Jesus have taken place, and historical critical methods for studying the historicity of Jesus have been developed. Various Christian and non-Christian sources are used to study and establish the historicity of Jesus, e.g. Jewish sources such as Josephus, and Roman sources such as Tacitus. These sources are compared and contrasted to Christian sources such as the Pauline Letters and the Synoptic Gospels to determine the historicity of Jesus. These sources are usually independent of each other (e.g. Jewish sources do not draw upon Roman sources), and similarities and differences between them are used in the authentication process.[27][28]"
