Do you believe that Jesus actually existed?

Question

and I'm not talking about Jesus Gomez who helped me landscape my lawn last summer but Jesus Christ in the Bilble.

FYI: There is non-Biblical historical accounts of Jesus's existantce and rise from death:

Josephus, The Antiquites

Suetonius (A.D. 70-160), Vita Nero

Piny the Younger (AD 61 or 62-113), governor of Turkey

These accounts are basicly would've been like reading a N.Y. Times article a few years after the death of Jesus.

Answer 1

The answer to your question is a resounding, yes, and He still does. He is NOT dead. He is Resurrected from the dead. No other human that has ever existed throughout all history can claim this act. This is what differentiates Jesus as the True Messiah, as truly Divine, while all others are fakes, imposters and mere men.

Also, since He now exists, you have the privilege to call upon His Name, and He will audibly answer you. If you desire in your heart an actual relationship with Christ, He says, "Knock and I will answer," for he is the Door.

It amazes me how people today are so skeptical and jaded that they are actually preventing themselves from acquiring "wholeness" in Christ. That was the whole purpose behind His Redemptive Deed upon the Cross, to reconcile us (our fallen sin nature) back to the Father. He is our Salvation. His resurrection created a Door through which we may re-attain in us what was lost by the Great Primordial Fall when we became divorced from God (the Great Divorce). The process of accepting Christ Yeshua (Jesus) as your personal Savior is a “Rebirth” where you are spiritually “rewired” and “reconnected” back to the Godhead of Father, Son and Holy Spirit through Christ’s ultimate act of Love, the giving up of His mortal life for your sins.

Following is the proof of Christ’s existence and divinity:

Why believe in Christianity over all other religions?

Critics often ask why Christianity is any better than any other religion in the world. After all, of all the religions that exist how can it be that only Christianity is true? If God exists, why can't God use different religions? Don't all paths lead to God? These kinds of questions are asked all the time of Christians and unfortunately the answers aren't always very good ones particularly when dealing with people who have a relativistic truth base and don't believe in absolutes.
Therefore, in an attempt to demonstrate why Christianity is true and all other religious systems are false, I've prepared the following list of reasons for Christianity's superiority.
There are such things as absolute truths
If truth is relative, then the statement that truth is relative is an absolute truth and would be self defeating statement by proving that truth is not relative. But, if truth is absolute, then the statement "truth is absolute" is true and not self defeating. It is true that truth exists. It is true that truth will not contradict itself as we have just seen. In fact, it is absolutely true that you are reading this paper.
If we can see that there is such a thing as truth in the world, then we could also see that there can be spiritual truth as well. It is not absurd to believe in spiritual absolutes anymore than physical or logical absolutes. Even the statement that all religions lead to God is a statement held to be a spiritual absolute by many people. This simply demonstrates that people do believe in spiritual truth. Why? Because truth exists. However, not all that is believed to be true actually is true. Therefore, all belief systems cannot be true since they often contradict each other in profound ways.
Religions contradict each other; therefore, they cannot all be true.
Mormonism teaches that there are many gods in existence and that you can become a god. Christianity teaches that there is only one God and you cannot become a god. Islam teaches that Jesus is not God in flesh where Christianity does. Jesus cannot be both God and not God at the same time. Some religions teach that we reincarnate while others do not. Some teach there is a hell and others do not. They cannot all be true. If they cannot all be true, it cannot be true that all religions lead to God. Furthermore, it means that some religions are, at the very least, false in their claims to reveal the true God (or gods). Remember, truth does not contradict itself. If God exists, He will not institute mutually exclusive and contradictory belief systems in an attempt to get people to believe in Him. God is not the author of confusion (1 Cor. 14:33). Therefore, it is reasonable to believe that there can be an absolute spiritual truth and that not all systems can be true regardless of whether or not they claim to be true. There must be more than a mere claim.
Fulfilled Prophecy concerning Jesus
Though there are other religions that have prophecies in them, none are 100% accurate as is the Bible and none of them point to someone like Jesus who made incredible claims and performed incredible deeds. The Old Testament was written hundreds of years before Jesus was born. Yet, the Old Testament prophesied many things about Jesus. This is undoubtedly evidence of divine influence upon the Bible.
Please consider some of the many prophecies of Jesus in the following chart.
ProphecyOld Testament ProphecyNew Testament Fulfillment
Born of a virginIsaiah 7:14
Matt. 1:18,25

Born at BethlehemMicah 5:2
Matt. 2:1

He would be preceded by a MessengerIsaiah 40:3
Matt. 3:1-2

Rejected by His own peopleIsaiah 53:3
John 7:5; 7:48

Betrayed by a close friendPsalm 41:9
John 13:26-30

His side piercedZech. 12:10
John 19:34

CrucifixionPsalm 22:1,
Psalm 22:11-18
Luke 23:33;
John 19:23-24

Resurrection of ChristPsalm 16:10
Acts 13:34-37

Fulfillment of prophecy can have different explanations. Some state that the NT was written and altered to make it look like Jesus fulfilled OT prophecy (but there is no evidence of that). Others state that the prophecies are so vague that they don't count (but many of the prophecies are not vague at all). Of course, it is possible that God inspired the writers and Jesus, who is God in flesh, fulfilled these prophecies as a further demonstration of the validity of Christianity.
The Claims and Deeds of Christ
Christianity claims to be authored by God. Of course, merely making such a claim does not make it true. Anyone can make claims. But, backing up those claims is entirely different. Jesus used the Divine Name for Himself (John 8:58), the same Divine Name used by God when Moses asked God what His name was in (Exodus 3:14). Jesus said that He could do whatever He saw God the Father do (John 5:19), and He claimed to be one with God the Father (John 10:30; 10:38). Likewise, the disciples also called Him God (John 1:1,14; John 10:27; Col. 2:9). By default, if Jesus is God in flesh, then whatever He said and did would be true. Since Jesus said that He alone was the way, the truth, and the life and that no one can find God without Him (John 14:6), this all becomes incredibly important.
Again, making a claim is one thing. Backing it up is another. Did Jesus also back up His words with His deeds? Yes, He did.
•Jesus changed water into wine (John 2:6-10).
•Jesus cast out demons (Matt. 8:28-32; 15:22-28).
•Jesus healed lepers (Matt. 8:3; Luke 17:14).
•Jesus healed diseases (Matt. 4:23,24; Luke 6:17-19)
•Jesus healed the paralytic (Mark 2:3-12).
•Jesus raised the dead (Matt. 9:25; John 11:43-44).
•Jesus restored sight to the blind (Matt. 9:27-30; John 9:1-7).
•Jesus restored cured deafness (Mark 7:32-35).
•Jesus fed the multitude (Matt. 14:15-21; Matt. 15:32-38).
•Jesus walked on water (Matt. 8:26-27).
•Jesus calmed a storm with a command (Matt. 8:22-27; Mark 4:39).
•Jesus rose from the dead (Luke 24:39; John 20:27).
•Jesus appeared to disciples after resurrection (John 20:19).
The eyewitnesses recorded the miracles of Jesus and the gospels have been reliably transmitted to us. Therefore, we can believe what Jesus said about Himself because Jesus performed many convincing miracles in front of people who testified and wrote about what they saw Him do.
Christ's resurrection
Within Christianity, the resurrection is vitally important. Without the resurrection, our faith is useless (1 Cor. 15:14). It was the resurrection that changed the lives of the disciples. After Jesus was crucified, the disciples ran and hid. But when they saw the risen Lord, they knew that all that Jesus had said and done proved that He was indeed God in flesh, the Savior.
No other religious leader has died in full view of trained executioners, had a guarded tomb, and then risen three days later to appear to many many people. This resurrection is proof of who Jesus is and that He did accomplish what He set out to do: provide redemption for mankind.
Buddha did not rise from the dead. Muhammad did not rise from the dead. Confucius did not rise from the dead. Krishna did not rise from the dead, etc. Only Jesus has physically risen from the dead, walked on water, claimed to be God, and raised others from the dead. He has conquered death. Why trust anyone else? Why trust anyone who can be held by physical death when we have a Messiah who is greater than death itself?
Conclusion
Why should anyone trust in Christianity over Islam, Buddhism, Mormonism, or anything else? It is because there are absolute truths, because only in Christianity is there accurate fulfilled prophecies of a coming Messiah. Only in Christianity do we have the extremely accurate transmission of the eyewitness documents (gospels) so we can trust what was originally written. Only in Christianity do we have the person of Christ who claimed to be God, performed many miracles to prove His claim of divinity, who died and rose from the dead, and who said that He alone was the way the truth and the life. All this adds to the legitimacy and credibility of Christianity above all other religions -- all based on the person of Jesus. If follows that if it is all true about what Jesus said and did, then all other religions are false because Jesus said that He alone was the way, the truth, and the life and that no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). It could not be that Jesus is the only way and truth and other religions also be the truth.
Either Jesus is true and all other religions are false or other religions are true and Jesus is false. There are no other options. I choose to follow the risen Lord.

Answer 2

Majority scholarly opinion is with a modified version of #2: that Jesus existed, and that some elements of the gospels are probably true, such as that Jesus was a healer/exorcist who was killed by the Romans. Also, there are two references to Jesus in Josephus, only one of which is thought to be a later inclusion. The second one speaks of "James, the brother of Jesus" and that one is probably authentic.

Answer 3

Hi,
Yes i do believe Jesus Christ once walked the surface of the earth not just because i'm a christian and being christian testifying to the fact the Christ lived would not carry much weight, but my belief is seconded by secular history too.

Answer 4

of course Jesus existed
Josephus and ancient historian even wrote about how this man had such a large following.
would you be really asking this question if he had been an imaginary person, would the millions of christians have a belief now over 2000 years after this man was born, would the calander we use today exist.

Answer 5

Absolutely I think he exsisted. He was a Jewish man, a prophet, who did many good things in his time. I dont believe that he is the messiah however. And after seeing the DaVinci Code, I truley believe that it could be very possible that Jesus was married and does have a blood line of decendants. Wouldnt that just devestate the world? Lol.

Answer 6

I believe that Jesus existed. I don't believe he was sent by God though (I don't believe in any god in the first place) and I'm sure the stories about him aren't accurate either, since stories are never accurate when documented years afterwards.

Answer 7

Do you actually believe that George Washington existed?

How about Plato or Socratees?

Not a well thought out question there friend.

Answer 8

Probably. I think stories overlapped back and forth, but a man with a good message? I'd definitely prefer to believe he existed.

Answer 9

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made. John 1:1-3

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14

God demonstrated His love by sending His promised Son, the Savior and Messiah, Jesus Christ, and allowing Him to be crucified. God paid for our sins Himself. The Lord is good, just and merciful beyond our understanding.

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life". John 3:16

Seek God now. Humbly ask Him to forgive you of your sins. Jesus Christ paid the full price for sin on a Roman cross almost 2000 years ago. Seek His free gift of forgiveness and unending love.

Jesus Christ said: "Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened." Matthew 7:7,8

Answer 10

I do believe he existed as much is written of him, He sounds like a great teacher...However, I really do not buy the whole Biblical Jesus.....

Answer 11

Your question something wrong. Jesus is a real person in real history. only that you should ask is do you believe if he is God's son as he said.