If Jesus Christ didn't exist.....?

Question

If Jesus Christ did not exist... why didn't anybody try to refute his existence? Jesus died in 33 ad.. the first gospel was written roughly around 50-55 ad. Did everybody die from a horrible plague that lived in 33ad? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE EYEWITNESSES??? I don't think everyone from 33ad was dead by the time the gospels were written. Why didn't somebody come forward and write a document about Jesus' non existence? And THAT WOULD HAVE DEBUNKED CHRISTIANITY RIGHT FROM THE GET GO, but NOBODY DID!!!! And don't tell me the Gospels were written long after 70ad because that is a lie! The destruction of the temple in 70ad was a prophecy fulfilled by Jesus..only one of the four gospels mention it.

Answer 1

Wow...like some prozac? Calm down, son.

I'm a Christian. Were I an atheist, my argument would be that nobody debunked Christ in 33 AD because there was nothing to debunk...as he did not exist. I would argue that in the 50's there were just letters written from one person to another or to a group, and that it was a cult doing it. Why bother debunking it? By 100 AD, you have so many groups persecuting these Christians that you don't have to bother debunking...the Romans and Hebrews will kill them anyway.

Again, I'm a Christian...but the arguments are easy.

Answer 2

Well you could be off by several generations on your dates first of all and 20 years really would have done in much of the population.

Second, most of the people thought that the Christians were a weird sect and not worth the time to dispute, kinda like the cults that are around today.

Third, as a atheist I would point out that I rather doubt there was a historical Jesus, mostly due to the lack of Roman documentation. But it really isn't important to my belief and I wouldn't argue the point. Either way, that does not provide evidence that he was what his followers say. I mean Charlie Manson thinks he is god too. His family agreed at least at that time. Doesn't make that part true just because Charlie is still alive.

Answer 3

There is good historical evidence to suggest Jesus existed. That doesn't mean he performed any miracles or came back from the dead or was the son of God. But he almost certainly existed.
Also, just because only one gospel mentions the destruction of the temple doesn't mean the others were written before it happened. The new Adam Sandler movie doesn't mention the destruction of the temple either.

Answer 4

who says he does or doesn't. We really don't know. We really don't know what life has in store for us. till we die. We can say w believe in the bible but remember it was "man made" thus not perfect. I know it was "suppose" to be made by "holy" man. But how do we know if wasn't there. W are human we mostly believe what we "can" only "see" with out eyes. Not anything we can "not". That is way we are. But if you look before that. You can there many things going on before "christ" came to be. Who is to say "jesus" is real or isn't. Who says "allah" isn't real. Who to say buddah isn't real? Who is to say "atheist" are right. My point is Who to say what right. Can we die now experience the after life. then come back the second we died nd tell every one about it. No!! Since we cant we are only "Think" we know what is right and what is wrong. One thing wrong to other may be right to some one els.e Something that is wrong to one person maybe wrong to a nother person but only in extreme cases wont count as a wrong. As i said. We don't know what the"after" life holds. We wont know till we get there. Thus I am say we all could be wrong. Or in the opposite end of the spectrum we all could be right. Hell who knows. only the death does. We could just rot away in the caskets. Think there is an after life. Cuz we are scared to die. So this is what i think. Sorry if i offended any one.

Answer 5

Here's some more stuff to back your point.

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus referred to the stoning of “James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ.” (The Jewish Antiquities, Josephus, Book XX, sec. 200) A direct and very favorable reference to Jesus, found in Book XVIII, sections 63, 64, has been challenged by some who claim that it must have been either added later or embellished by Christians; but it is acknowledged that the vocabulary and the style are basically those of Josephus, and the passage is found in all available manuscripts.

Tacitus, a Roman historian who lived during the latter part of the first century C.E., wrote: “Christus [Latin for “Christ”], from whom the name [Christian] had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.”—The Complete Works of Tacitus (New York, 1942), “The Annals,” Book 15, par. 44.

With reference to early non-Christian historical references to Jesus, The New Encyclopædia Britannica states: “These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the first time and on inadequate grounds by several authors at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.”—(1976), Macropædia, Vol. 10, p. 145.

Answer 6

Who knows whether anyone wrote books debunking Jesus' existence? The early church destroyed many of the early writings and only included in the Bible the ones that told it the way they wanted to hear it. Noone thought they needed to argue against Jesus' existence. Noone thought a superstitious cult would last for 2,000 years. Anyway, very few people doubt the existence of Jesus, they just dispute the claims that he was a God.

Answer 7

The first Gospel was written 60 to 100 years after his death.
Tammi Dee

Answer 8

Jesus Christ had not been invented he lived 2000 years ago and I am his grand grand...boy. I'd left a note for me it is called Bible. If you do not believe me I am sorry. Try to invent someone like him now do you think you will have a success with it? No. So Why do you think Jesus was fiction?

Answer 9

Man has been trying to, "refute", the existence of Christ since he lived. Because le us face it, no one likes hearing that they might be responsible to anyone but them self. That human nature.
Can't do anything wrong if there no standard to go by, right.

Answer 10

Even many athiests will agree there was a person named Jesus. I think they dispute whether or not he was the saviour or just some guy in history that started a religion.