Present your evidence. Let's see what you've got.
P.S. Others have tried.
P.S. Others have tried.
How to Defend The Historical Jesus
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Present your evidence. Let's see what you've got.
P.S. Others have tried. RE: How to Defend The Historical Jesus
December 1, 2018 at 2:09 am
(This post was last modified: December 1, 2018 at 2:48 am by Cherub786.)
Read "Did Jesus Exist?" by Bart Ehrman.
Leave this matter to the historians and scholars. Otherwise no figure from ancient history can be said to exist with 100% certainty, as I gave the example of Socrates prior. Here's a brief summary from Wikipedia: Quote:"To the objection that there are no contemporary Roman records of Jesus' existence, Ehrman points out that such records exist for almost no one and there are mentions of Christ in several Roman works of history from only decades after the death of Jesus.[1][3] The author states that the authentic letters of the apostle Paul in the New Testament were likely written within a few years of Jesus' death and that Paul likely personally knew James, the brother of Jesus.[2] Although the gospel accounts of Jesus' life may be biased and unreliable in many respects, Ehrman writes, they and the sources behind them which scholars have discerned still contain some accurate historical information.[1][3] So many independent attestations of Jesus' existence, Ehrman says, are actually "astounding for an ancient figure of any kind".[2] Ehrman dismisses the idea that the story of Jesus is an invention based on pagan myths of dying-and-rising gods, maintaining that the early Christians were primarily influenced by Jewish ideas, not Greek or Roman ones,[1][2] and repeatedly insisting that the idea that there was never such a person as Jesus is not seriously considered by historians or experts in the field at all.[1][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Did_Jesus_Exist%3F_(Ehrman)#cite_note-Ehrman-1][/url] |
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