RE: Objective evidence for the existence of Jesus Christ?
March 31, 2015 at 5:07 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2015 at 5:09 pm by Mudhammam.)
While the primary sources for Jesus' life can't be considered "objective" (historical record rarely, if ever, is), objective evidence for his existence can still be gleaned from them. Examples such as the cobbling together of a virgin birth narrative that places Jesus' delivery in Bethlehem while he was commonly regarded as a Nazarene, or the clumsy attempts to side-step the significance of his baptism by John the Baptist, suggest a historical core to the story. I've come to the conclusion that those who deny Jesus' existence shoulder a much greater burden of proof that involves a lot of handwaving and dismissal of evidence for no other apparent reason than to remain consistent in their prior bias, and reach conclusions which require more improbability than the basic thesis, that a Galilean named Jesus influenced others who then organized a church.
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