Did Jesus exist?

[solja247]

What you have is not called credibility.

Why not?

The four gosphels shows an early picture of how people viewed Jesus, how is it not credible?

What about jesus? Is there any historical evidence other than bible??

I could ask the same thing about Socrates (Any evidence outside of what his students abstractly wrote about him).
Josehpus can help you out here.

My point was that it doesn't mean there was anything special about Jesus, if he existed (which the quote implied there was).

Jesus was special, just like Mohammad was. They have captivated millions of followers

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So I would love to see some credible books and encyclopedias saying that Jesus DID exist

All of them do! Here is a good place to start: Brill's Encyclopedia of the Ancient World New Pauly

There is no contemporary evidence for mohammad's existence, either. Same as jesus. Same as King Arthur. Or the Easter Bunny.

People dont live their whole lives and die for a dellusion. You would think that Jesus's followers would be the most skeptic. To my knowledge when a human dies, they stay dead. Jesus's friends believed He was more than a human, because they had been in His presence and because they believed what they saw.

Rene Salm is an Archaeologist Author who has lead Aggregated the most thorough Archaeological excavation of the Galilee region to date, one of the things that he discovered was that there is absolutely no evidence of Nazareth existing until the second CE

There is still a lot to uncover . lack of evidence does not mean it did not happen.

AND There were no Pharisees outside of the temple at the time, by law, it wasn't until the destruction of the temple that we have evidence of their activities in any formal sense outside of Jerusalem. The Pharisees were temple priests, and we have almost no accounts of them travelling, let alone living in a shit hole in Galilee Yet Jesus had many run-in's with these Pharisees...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharisees

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