im not a christian by any means but even i know that jesus was a live and very real. im mean the jesus who taught good things. not the guy who walked on water and heeled the blind.
Jesus IS real. its the teachings that people have corrupted, changed, rewrote, and misinterpreted that arent true.
2007-01-31 10:54:50 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I believe that very thing is a very good possibility myself .
2007-01-31 10:57:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because there's no evidence of his life outside the bible.
Beyond that, when one starts tearing about the gospels and other books of the new testament, one sees how every story is a retelling of other older stories, some from the mishnah, some from the stories of Moses, and some from various other mystery religions that were contemporary with early christianity. The whole story of a dying and rising god who offers salvation predates christianity by centuries, so much so that early christian writers often stated the devil planted such stories throughout history so that when Jesus finally was born, no one would buy into it.
As far as his teachings go, there's nothing original there. Nearly every word he utters can be found in the works of the Cynics, a group of nomadic philosophers who travelled throughout the Hellenistic culture early christianity grew out of.
Check out The Jesus Puzzle by Earl Dougherty, Deconstructing Jesus by Robert Price, or The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man by the same author. Could a man named Jesus have existed? Sure, but he was a far cry from whoever the gospels tell about. He very likely was a military leader, if anything. In the end, it seems best to remain agnostic on it.
2007-01-31 19:03:47 · answer #2 · answered by abulafia24 3 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Josephus, a Jewish historian, mentioned Jesus in his writings toward the end of the first century C.E., roughly 60 years after Jesus' death.
As a non-Christian, Josephus would have no reason to accept the historical reality of Jesus unless there was some sound basis for it.
In one of his works, Josephus discusses disturbances that were caused by the Jews during the time Pontius Pilate was governor of the region of Judea (26-36 C.E,) The disturbance centered around a man named Jesuss and his followers, Josephus identifies Jesus as "a wise man....a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of men who received the truth with pleasure," and he notes that Jesus was later condemned by Pilate to crucifixion. While this mention of Jesu does not suggest that Josephus himself accepted Jesus or the claim made about Jesus by his followers, it does seem clear that Josephus recognized Jesus to be a historical person who had a profound impact on the people he encountered.
Read also about Tacitus, a Roman historian.....Pliny the Younger another Roman source and Suetonius a Roman historian and lawyer.
All these writers prove the historical existence of Jesus......rather than biblical sources.
2007-02-03 14:38:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of people have been named Jesus. There are 3 different guys named Jesus that work at the landscaping place in Scottsdale.
In new testament times, there were several different Jesus persons, condemned to death on the cross for various criminal behavior.
So yeah, lots of guys named Jesus have existed. I even knew (intimately) a former virgin named Mary. Thankfully I didn’t have to marry her, but if she had gotten preggy, I wonder if she would have told her parents that it didn’t happen in the back seat of my 1973 Vega, but was instead impregnated by an angel with a turkey-baster full of god’s little swimmers.
2007-01-31 19:15:08 · answer #4 · answered by Devil in Details 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the 'proof' of jesus' existence is scant at best. The gospels were written 50-100 years after his supposed death. The only external source is supposedly from the Roman historian Josephus and the only reason why anyone even knows of Josephus is because the christian monks copied his works. (And rewrote it in parts where they wanted. What a coincidence.)
2007-01-31 18:59:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋
I have no problem with the idea that Jesus was a real person. He was probably also a great guy and a great philosopher and a great leader.
But that's a long, long way from proving that he is god.
2007-01-31 19:04:55 · answer #6 · answered by Alan 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
people make that claim to try and discredit his existance. As there are no "birth" records of him.
However, the fact that many different sources describe him do in fact lean towards the belief that he is real bieng a legitimate presumption. That is how things can be verified when multiple accounts describe the same person.
However there are holes in that we don't have any archeological evidence for the existance of jesus. We don't know for sure if this man was actually nammed "jesus" or if there was another preacher that the stories were based on but they just changed the name of the person. And his existance doesn't speak for the truth of any "miracles".
2007-01-31 19:04:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Simply put... the Jesus that is worldly known is the Jesus that Atheists find hard to believe... the Jesus who resurrected after being crusified... the same Jesus that fed the 5,000 with very very little food... that is why us Atheists say there is no "Jesus"... its pumped into our brains from school days, when we leave school, we hear it from preachers, preists, religious friends and family... the Jesus with all his powers is the untrue Jesus to us Atheists, although i for one can easily believe that there was a Jesus that taught good things... easily... its the walking on water and healing the blind that i find extremely hard to grasp. x
2007-01-31 19:12:00 · answer #8 · answered by Dare Me 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because outside of the Bible there is not evidence that the man existed at all. The few writings outside of the Bible refer to his followers, not the man himself, and no contemporary historian of Jesus noted his existence. On the other hand, many of his deeds and tales are plainly copied from previously existing myths and shoehorned into the Hebrew Messiah figure.
2007-01-31 18:59:05 · answer #9 · answered by Scott M 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was real, and not a god. Yep, I believe that.
Nevertheless, there's not a single archaeological record of Jesus, so it's not very obvious that a man named like that ever walked on Earth
2007-01-31 18:58:55 · answer #10 · answered by FAUUFDDaa 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋
obviously you have been brainwashed into believing that jesus is real. Dude, according to their own beliefs, christians admit that the bible was written 90-150 years AFTER jesus' spiel.follow the link on the bottom and enlighten yourself.
2007-01-31 19:01:04 · answer #11 · answered by vitriol for the masses 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋