who has been around longer jesus or merlin?

Question

in the time of the druid the christian are not at war with the pagans this is a good chance that merlin was here first

i have just watched a progam all about merlin and he was around before medievil times

before 2000yrs ago

Answer 1

Good question. Merlin is derived form the ancient Celtic god Murlynd who was said to have raised the island of Prydein (england) out of the sea. Jesus is derived from ancient Kristos myths of the Egyptians.

If you are talking about popular belief than the answer would be merlin. Celts believed in Merlin thousands of years before Jesus's birth.

Answer 2

Ah the question that needs an answer.
If I am correct Jesus walked the earth around 0 AD till about 36 AD give or take a year. He was the son of God a gave mankind values to live by.
Merlin, even though a fictional character, was born near the end of the Roman occupation of Britain. He taught Arthur who was the b'stard son of Uther, born in Tintagel castle Cornwall. The dates run between 400 and 800AD. So by the legend of Arthur I would say Merlin came a late second to our Lord Jesus Christ by a good 400 years.

Answer 3

Merlin (the "Hawk" in celtic) is actually a late addition to the legends of Arthur. In Thomas Mallory "The Death of Arthur", usually considerd "the" version of the legend from the 12th century, Merlin gets a single reference in which he appears in the form of an old man trying to trick Arthur. He did not become an important part of the legend until around the 14th century. And even then, Merlin (if he had been real) would have lived in the 4th or 5th century.

As Jesus lived in the first century. We have manuscripts of the New Testament that still survive from the first century, plus historical accounts of his life by Josephius (a contemporary, non-Christian historian), the Jewish Talmud, and other letters and writing, catacomb art, and more that offer reliable historical evidence of his existence during the first century.

So looks like Jesus predates Merlin by a mimimum of 400 years, but actually closer to 1400 years.

Answer 4

Jesus was born about 4 B.C. and was crucified and rose from the dead about 33 A.D.If Merlin was really around at all it would of been around the time of King Arthur,about 400 A.D. Mohammed started Islam around 600 A.D. and the Christians started the Crusades about 1000 A.D. to put it in perspective.
Jesus the 2nd person of the trinity has been around forever,I was speaking of his time physically on Earth.
The Trinity 1x1x1=1 God in 3 persons,not,as the Mormons say 1+1+1=3 separate gods(small g intended)

Answer 5

Merlin is a fictional character, Jesus is a Manifestation of God, the funny thing though is, spirituality is magic. A prayer can influence the person you pray for all across the globe, and as we are all connected every spiritual decition towards good we make as individuals ripples across the connection and comes back to us and ripples again like throwing a stone in a pond. Every spiritual action we do affects mankind as a whole, that may be a Baha'i thing reserved to the believers only but i doubt that if a pure soul is doing pure and holy deeds it isn't the same.

Answer 6

Hard to say but if I remember correctly Merlin was first documented in writing around the 10th century. Who knows how long he existed before that is a verbal tradition.

My bet is that Jesus is a few hundred years older than Merlin.

Answer 7

Well, Andrew, the answer (in the physical world) would be dependent upon the existence of Camelot and then, Camelot's period of existence. The earliest I've ever heard succesfully argued for Camelot (with the placement of same near what is now NW England - but that's another argument) and the reign of Arthur was is approximately 320AD +/- 20 years. However, I'm assuming you did mean to ask of Camelot's Merlin (there might have been others with that Title in other parts of Brittany during other time periods).

Answer 8

Merlin

Answer 9

The character that may or may not be real, in the Arthurian Legends, predates the concept of Jesus Christ as we know it. To believers, Jesus has always existed, but even so we did not know of him until after Merlin.

Answer 10

That depends on your perspective but if you are going by the following:

a)they both exist(ed)
b)the time they were first on Earth/believed in

then your answer would be Merlin.

If you go by what some people say about Jesus being God/the son of God, and you don't mean existing actually on Earth then some would say that Jesus has been around longer.