The question that shatters faith, forever.

[Rokcet Scientist]

Which references are these? Josephus the JEW that confessed He was the Messiah?

For someone that did a great deal of miracles, or even 'party tricks' that got amped up, I find it suspicious that no one of his time had the slightest thing to say about him.

These references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus

I too find it suspicious that nobody else mentioned his miracles, but that doesn't automatically mean he never existed. Far more likely is that that stuff was made up or exaggerated after he died.

Yeah but what I'm getting at is that if there was this average Joe by the name of Jesus, how is it that something like the New Testament is produced but no one even documents this guy that had his 15mins of fame... Which then turned into 2000 years thanks to the scandal that is the NT?

Around AD 0 the messiah-business was a cottage industry in Israel. There was one on every second streetcorner preaching hell and damnation. Self-proclaimed messiahs were a dime a dozen. There were more messiahs than blacksmiths. One persona eventually, centuries later, eclipsed all the others because there were 'gospels' written about him. That was the JC persona of course. But it could just as easily have been another one of those hundreds of 'messiahs'. It's pure coincidence that it turned out to be one 'Jesus'. Had the gospel authors so decided it could also have been a Peter, John, Lamech, Ali, or whatever.

But whatever his name, it is bizar that someone who, according to the gospels made such a stir in Israel, would never have been mentioned in the Roman archives of the day, or in any other record of that period. Only the New Testament, compiled and composed hundreds of years later in a strange faraway land, speaks of a 'Jesus Christ'. But there is no historical evidence, from other sources, to support that particular messiah's existence. None! Not a sliver.