Evidence for Jesus outside the Bible?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

Are you so thick you cannot understand how someone can believe in the past existence of Jesus but not believe in his divinity?

I don't think anyone here makes that claim.

It's entirely possible ,that in the first century Judea,there was a wondering preacher. (Not Rabbi,this was over a century before the beginning of the Rabbinic tradition) His name may well have been something like Yeshua/Yoshua bar Yusuf. The name Jesus is the Latinised version of the Greek Iesous.

ALSO that he had a small band of followers,as was common.

PLUS that he was executed by the Romans for sedition,like THOUSANDS of Jews during the Roman occupation.

PLUS. it's likely he would have had miracles ascribed to him This was an ancient tradition,the Jews expected their prophets and holy men to perform miracles.

The existence of an historical Jesus is possible, plausible,even likely. What is far less plausible is what has been written about Jesus, his life and teachings.

The EARLIEST writings in the New Testament are Epistles of Saul,written at least a human generation after the death of Jesus. There is nothing I have seen which allows me to accept the New Testament is anything more than the mythology of Christianity.

By all,means believe in an historical Jesus, who was a great moral teacher. But,please don't get your panties all out of focus if you are ridiculed by a bunch of skeptics and atheists who dismiss your position as faith based.IE belief without evidence.

PS Is a genuine (true) Christian anything like a genuine (true) Scotsman? Look it up.