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Did Jesus Exist? Was there a historical Jesus, or was Jesus a mythical figure? A new breed of conspiracy theorists called “Jesus Mythers” insist that Jesus o…
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You should post who this is from lol!
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Yes Jesus Christ did exist..
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If people snitch on you nowadays to avoid prison where you get 3 hots and a cot, why would the apostles be willing to die for him. He was either a liar a lunatic or Lord.
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He possibly existed but we don’t know if the NT stories are true and how much man made fiction it contains.
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All we know is what is written in the gospels and they were penned 30 or 40 years after the events are said to have happened.
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He is David Wood, a great apologist and responsible for converting the late Nabeel Quareshi from Islam to Christianity.
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“The Christ-Myth Theory And Its Problems” by ROBERT M. PRICE
“Did Jesus Really Exist? Fact, Fable or Fiction: What the Evidence Really Tells Us About the Historical Jesus” by Derek Murphy
“Jesus: Mything in Action” By David Fitzgerald
“Jesus Neither God nor Man: The Case for a Mythical Jesus” by Earl Doherty
“JESUS: the truth behind the myth” by Peter Sparks
“THE MYTH OF CHRIST: Why Jesus is NOT the Savior” by Ralph Harris
“Nailed: Ten Christian myths that show Jesus never existed at all” by David Fitzgerald
“Jesus Did Not Exist: A Debate Among Atheists” by RAPHAEL LATASTER with RICHARD CARRIER
“On the Historicity of Jesus: Why we Might Have Reason to Doubt” by Richard Carrier
“there was no Jesus, there is no God: A Scholarly Examination of the Scientific, Historical, and Philosophical Evidence & Arguments for Monotheism” by Raphael Christopher Lataster
“Was there a historical ‘Jesus of Nazareth?’ The use of mid-rash to create a biographical detail in the gospel story” By D.M. Murdock
“bart ehrman and the quest of the historical jesus of nazareth: An Evaluation of Ehrman’s Did Jesus Exist?” Edited by Frank R. Zindler & Robert M. Price
“The case against the case for Christ: a New Testament scholar refutes Lee Strobel” by Robert M. Price
“The Historical Bejeezus: What a Long, Strange Quest It’s Been” By Robert M. Price
“Atheism and the Case against Christ” by Matthew S. McCormick.
“CREATING CHRIST: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity” By James S. Valliant & C. W. Fahy
“FROM JESUS TO CHRISTIANITY: How Four Generations of Visionaries & Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith” by L. Michael White.
“WHO WROTE THE NEW TESTAMENT? The Making of the Christian Myth” by BURTON L. MACK
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If Jesus didn’t exists we need to burn all history books!
We have eyewitnesses, 24k manuscripts, 1 million commentaries and 25k artifacts. -
NT & Gospels historical evidence:
Gospels are early accounts
Dead Sea Scrolls Cave 7. Jose Callahan discovered a fragment of the Gospel of Mark and dated it to have been written in A.D. 50. He also discovered fragments of Acts and other epistles and dated them to have been written slightly after A.D. 50.{4}
https://probe.org/the-historical-reliability-of-the-gospels/
Cumulative Historical and
Geographical detailed evidence, early and local.
Geography
The Gospels are meticulously accurate with respect to these details. The authors, for example, mention twenty-six towns — many of which were small and insignificanthttps://isjesusalive.com/were-the-gospel-writers-really-geographically-inept/
Mark was writing the account from Peter (Eusebius)
Polycarp Born 69AD quotes NT:
SO WHAT NEW TESTAMENT BOOKS DOES POLYCARP QUOTE?
• Matthew (4 times)
• Mark (once)
• Luke (once)
• Acts (twice)
• Romans (once)
• 1st Corinthians (4 times)
• 2nd Corinthians (4 times)
• Galatians (3 times)
• Ephesians (4 times)
• Philippians (3 times)
• 1st Thessalonians (once)
• 2nd Thessalonians (once)
• 1st Timothy (3 times)
• 2nd Timothy (3 times)
• Hebrews (twice)
• 1st Peter (9 times)
• 1st John (once)
• 3rd John (once)The Muratorian fragment 180AD affirms 22 of the 27 books of the New Testament. These include the four Gospels, Acts, all 13 epistles of Paul, Jude, 1 John, 2 John (and possibly 3rd John), and Revelation.
Gospels are historically accurate
https://www.namb.net/apologetics-blog/the-historical-reliability-of-the-gospels-1/
https://bible.org/article/historical-reliability-gospelsHow Do we Know the Gospels are Historical?
scholars consider several factors: 1) authorship and date of composition, 2) intention and genre, 3) gospel sources and oral tradition, 4) textual criticism, 5) historical authenticity of specific sayings and narrative events.How do we know who wrote the Gospels
How Do We Know Who Wrote the Gospels? Timothy Paul Jones12 lines of evidence:
https://www.namb.net/apologetics-blog/the-historical-reliability-of-the-gospels-1/https://strangenotions.com/how-do-we-know-the-gospels-are-historical/
Gospels were written early
https://coldcasechristianity.com/writings/why-i-know-the-gospels-were-written-early-free-bible-insert/John accuracy
https://www.str.org/blog/evidence-demonstrates-john-reliable-historical-source
https://www.michaeljkruger.com/is-the-gospel-of-john-history-or-theology/
59 Confirmed or Historically Probable Facts in the Gospel of JohnActs accurately
https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_804.cfm
https://chab123.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/84-confirmed-facts-in-the-last-16-chapters-of-the-book-of-acts/
84 Confirmed Facts in the Last 16 Chapters of the Book of ActsLuke accuracy
http://www.ichthus.info/Luke/intro.htmlArcheological evidence for NT:
https://www.bethinking.org/is-the-bible-reliable/archaeology-and-the-historical-reliability-of-the-new-testamen -
First Century born Papias evidence for the Gospels:
Papias of Hierapolis, born in the first century, writing in the early second century in the region now known as western Turkey: “Mark, having become Peter’s translator, wrote down accurately whatever he remembered. It was not, however, in exact order that he related the sayings or deeds of Christ. For he neither heard the Lord nor accompanied him. … He accompanied Peter, who accommodated his instructions to the necessities of his hearers, but with no intention of giving a ordered narrative of the Lord’s sayings. Wherefore Mark made no mistake in writing things as he remembered them. Of one thing he took special care, not to omit anything he had heard, and not to put anything fictitious into the statements. … Matthew put together sayings in the Hebrew language,* and each one translated them as best he could.” Papias gathered his information about who wrote the Gospels through conversations with eyewitnesses of the life of Jesus; his words were preserved by Eusebius of Caesarea from texts that he possessed in the fourth century…
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12 lines of evidence for the Gospels reliability:
https://www.namb.net/apologetics-blog/the-historical-reliability-of-the-gospels-1/
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We know for sure, the Gospels were written early:
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The accuracy of the Gospel of John
https://www.michaeljkruger.com/is-the-gospel-of-john-history-or-theology/
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Book of Acts is 100% reliable
https://www.blueletterbible.org/faq/don_stewart/don_stewart_804.cfm
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Archeological evidence for NT
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