Just so you know, The Bible is not an acceptable answer here because the gospels were written at least half a century after the time of Jesus (look it up).
Who claimed he was a prophet/son of god? Him? His followers? Did he have followers? A trumped up charge by the romans?
2006-07-18 09:15:51 · 18 answers · asked by Ann Tykreist 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just as I thought, not 1 independent reference to Jesus. Having nothing written about him is highly unlikely if he existed since he had a profound effect on the region. He walked on water , performed miracles and whipped a mob into a frenzy but still nothing written about him.
Christians have been aware of this fact for centuries because they have recognised the need to falsify historical documents such as thos ef the historina Josephus.
It seems that thos ewho blindly believe in the bible are too dull to recognise/accept this.
2006-07-18 09:33:54 · answer #1 · answered by Nemesis 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
The first gospels appeared less than 150 AD some as early as 70 AD. Jesus was crucifed because he said he was God. The Old Testament points to Christ read Isaiah 53.
The New Testament writings followed the strict Jewish tradition of transcription. The Dead Sea Scrolls found in the 20th century prove the strict guidelines of Jewish transcription since they were almost word for word to the Old Testament. These writings are a lot older & were written in the traditional Hebrew. The Gospels were written in Greek w/ almost more than 5000 copies of the ancient manuscripts. Homer, for example, only has about 630 or so. Do you question the validity of Homer? The Bible is the most verifiable ancient manuscript.
FYI, the Quran was written about 650 AD using fragments of some of the gospels & the rest being dictated to the Prophet Muhammad by some angelic being.
2006-07-18 09:30:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible was created from many different sources over the years that were found. Not all at once. They date back to around 3500 years...BEFORE christ and after his death. Writings are dated throughout these years and interpretted into the Bible we see it today. Science can unveil many things, but it cannot specify the exact date as to when these things were written. Easy for humans to be off a few years. And with dates being calculated differently, 50 years isnt a big mig mistake to make even. Unless you walked with Jesus and spoke to the disciples, and saw them write it with your own eyes, you probably still wouldnt believe. Did you witness the holocaust? No? Well, then not believe it happened? Would you argue the date if you were not even born yet?
2006-07-18 09:32:13 · answer #3 · answered by angelikness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a religeous man and have read the bible many times. Never in my bible study did I find any reference to it being written a half a century after Jesus. Are you saying that you don't beleive the Bible but you will beleive some random source that apparently was written in his time. You don't beleive in Jesus anyway why do you care?
2006-07-18 09:19:26 · answer #4 · answered by Cool Guy in Cali 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible was written during the lifetimes of the eywitnesses and in the 40ad to 70ad range possibly Revelation being in the 70 to 90 range
Most books would have to be written before 70ad since they do not mention the fall of Jerusalem in 70ad, the death of Paul or the Death of Peter
2006-07-18 09:24:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the vault of an ancient monastery in Jerusalem is kept the holiest of all Christian relics: a Fathers' Day card from a young Jesus to the Creator, post-marked Nazareth, 10 A.D.
It contains a crayon drawing of Jesus and Jehovah, holding hands at what appears to be the zoo, and the inscription, "To the world's greatest dad".
What more proof do you need? There is none so blind as he who will not see.
2006-07-18 09:22:24 · answer #6 · answered by Happy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are no contemporary documents which even mention him. The letters of Pilate that have been used as areference were exposed as frauds when earlier copies were found that had not been altered to include references to Jesus (which SHOULD have been written as Yeshua which is the proper spoken form of the Hebrew name). The earliest reference I have ever seen is from 120 CE.
2006-07-18 09:21:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not a one. The rise of Christianity was a fluke where one of the many "messiahs" floating around at the time took off. Good PR I guess. Still took years for the son of god myth to spread.
2006-07-18 09:20:18 · answer #8 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The writings of Paul are the earliest writings about Jesus (shortly after Jesus's death)
2006-07-18 09:20:05 · answer #9 · answered by anthonydavidpirtle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The deity of Christ was decided, by majority vote, at the council of Hippo in Constantanople in the 400's AD. Christ was a Jewish rabbi in his day, and nobody considered there was any more to the story than that.
2006-07-18 10:28:51 · answer #10 · answered by taogent 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋