Can anyone give me some links that prove Christ lived on earth?

Question

Something scientific. No corny bullshitt

or you can summarize it for me

Answer 1

I don't think there are any.

Answer 2

Proof is always tricky, and subject to interpretation. In a few hundred years, archaeologists will be trying to decide if Elvis really did die and debating the legitimacy of the National Enquirer as a source. ;-)

Textual analysis suggests that there was a teacher going about in that area around that time who was a good story teller. (Nearly all of the parables show strong linguistic similarities.) BUT we can't prove anything about who he was or what role he saw himself in or even if his name was indeed Jesus.

I haven't kept up to date with the current thinking or research, but the wikipedia article below is a good overview of the dates and also the (questionable) validity of the Josephus reference. You might be interested in John Dominic Crossan's writings and the work of the Jesus Seminar (a 'controversial' academic forum for collaborative discussion on the 'historical Jesus'). They more or less start with the presumption (because you have to start somewhere) that there was a historical Jesus, but they'll also give a lot of reasons for that assumption.

Answer 3

Read the history books written by Josephus a Jewish Historian.

What do you mean by something scientific. Who proves that a person lived scientifically?

Answer 4

Well, the Bible says HE did.

The Qu'ran says HE did...

(Dont know if the Torah says HE did, but, they should have documents stating that HE was crucified if you were a scholar and wanted to dig into the history of Isreal)...

If you knew where to look and "they would let you", then you could dig up documents about HIS conviction, death, and burial...(Since they dont recognise HIM as Risen, they wouldnt have documents on that part).

It all depends if you want to "dig" long enough and hard enough to find the truth.

Then, what are you going to do with it? Will it solidify your Faith in HIM? You wont find HIM in a tomb, because he is Risen!

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 5

If there was proof, there would be no need for the gift of faith. We have to live on faith until we leave this mortal life and have a perfect knowlege.

Answer 6

Sorry, you won't find any x-rays, no bones, no photographs...

You will have to take the word of the people who lived at that time...

so there is NO scientific proof...

You either believe the people or you don't...

it is your choice

Answer 7

yes ... the way is to gain ur faith, then you'll know for sure.

The Lord may let you know Himself, if you get close enough.... use ur heart my boy... that's the way to communicate.... like a phone call..... it's a lot faster then to have someone scientifically try to enter the feeling in your heart.

Answer 8

Here's one of the many articles available from the Answers button @ http://web.express56.com/~bromar/

Is there historical and scientific proof of Jesus?

It is interesting that when people seek historic and scientific proof of Jesus, they immediately discount the Bible as a reliable source.

If we look at the Bible simply as a historic document, it should be among the most reliable on record compared with others.

Historians routinely cite Herodotus as a key source of information. He wrote from 488 B.C. to 428 B.C. and the earliest copy of his work comes from 900 A.D. (1,300 years later). There are only eight known copies of his work.

By contrast, the New Testament of the Bible (with all its information about Jesus) was written between 40 A.D. and 100 A.D. The earliest known copy is from 130 A.D. and there are 5,000 known copies in Greek, 10,000 in Latin and 9,300 in other languages.

Still, to put to rest the notion that there is no historic and scientific proof of Jesus outside the Bible, we may look to Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and to Roman historian Carius Cornelius Tacitus - both well known and accepted.

Josephus, in the book Jewish Antiquities" wrote:

"At that time lived Jesus, a wise man, if he may be called a man; for he performed many wonderful works. He was a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleasure. . . .And when Pilate, at the instigation of the chief men among us, had condemned him to the cross, they who before had conceived an affection for him did not cease to adhere to him. For on the third day he appeared to them alive again, the divine prophets having foretold these and many other wonderful things concerning him. And the sect of the Christians, so called from him, subsists at this time" (Antiquities, Book 18, Chapter 3, Section 1).

Tacitus, in writing about accusations that Nero burned the city of Rome and blamed it on Christians, said the following:

". . .Nero procured others to be accused, and inflicted exquisite punishment upon those people, who were in abhorrence for their crimes, and were commonly known by the name of Christians. They had their denomination from Christus (Christ, dm.), who in the reign of Tibertius was put to death as a criminal by the procurator Pontius Pilate. . . .At first they were only apprehended who confessed themselves of that sect; afterwards a vast multitude discovered by them, all of which were condemned, not so much for the crime of burning the city, as for their enmity to mankind. . . ." (Tacitus, Annals, 15, 44).

Learn More about the Historical Jesus! http://www.allaboutjesuschrist.org/historical-jesus.htm

Answer 9

www.newadvent.com. This is historical in part establishing the man existed.

Answer 10

Some things are just faith, they cannot be explained by links.

Answer 11

http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/marshall_gauvin/did_jesus_really_live.html