Historical proof of Jesus Christ?

Question

OK, even though there's no proof he's the son of God, I know that Jesus existed and there's historical proof to back that up. However, I'm having trouble finding information regarding this. Can somebody provide an unbiased, non Christian/Catholic link? The type of information I'm looking for that I'm looking for talks about stuff such as the records the Roman Catholics that Jesus was mentioned in. And please don't tell me to look in the Gospels. Thanks.

Answer 1

there is no historic facts written,only the new testament(and we all know how true that heap of nonsense is)josephus was not around at the time,and even the romans had no record of anyone named jesus christ being crucified,the romans went to great lengths to keep good records,and to you gnostic all of those that you mention came later and were not around at the supposed time of jesus.

Answer 2

No. There are no historical documents providing factual proof of his existence. You would think that with all the things that he did there would be some record in the roman archives. We know the day that Caesar died, but no reference anywhere in these archives about this Jesus guy. EDIT: BTW The new testament was NOT written by Jesus Christ's immediate contemporaries. None of the apostles every men Jesus. All the Gospels were written at least 60 years after his supposed Crucifixion.

Answer 3

Josephus, a very important Jewish historian born A.D. 37, wrote most of his four works towards the end of the first century. Check his writing "The Antiquities". Also "Testimonium Flavianum".

The writings of Tacitus also make reference to Jesus. I think Tacitus was a Roman historian. Also Pliny the Younger. There was reference also by a historian named Hallus, perhaps not specifically talking about Christ, but in recording history of that time made reference to when the earth went dark at the time of Christ's crucifixion. There are also volumes of writings by the "apostolic fathers", considered the be the earliest Christian writers after the New Testament. The Epistle of Clement of Rome, the Epistles of Ignatius, the Epistle of Barnabas and the Epistle of Polycarp

Answer 4

Historians can only agree that Jesus probably lived and that was decided on the basis of the four gospels. (Sorry, but that is all they have to go on.) No contemporary of Jesus recorded anything about him. You can look up the historicity of Jesus in any encyclopedia and that is what you will find. While there were historians and public figures who wrote about Jesus some time after his death, either the authenticity of these texts are in doubt or they do not give enough indication exactly who they were talking about. The writinga of Tacitus, Pliny and Josephus are ALL in question. None of them were contemporaries of Jesus.

Answer 5

If you read the book "Case for Christ" it involves an atheist that set out to disprove Jesus based on historical, scientific, and medical data. Halfway through examining the evidence he became a Christian and appropraitely renamed it.

He found the evidences were compelling and the testimony given by the Apostles would stand up in a court of law. The fact is you have 13 apostles who were eyewitnesses to the ministry of Jesus who saw all the miracles as well as him resurrected. They completely devoted their lives to spreading the Gospel even through estrangment from the Jews, presecution, torture, and even death itself. They could have stopped the suffering in their lives by just renouncing Jesus and admit it was a fraud, but they never did.

I tell you the truth, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned; he has crossed over from death to life. -John 5:24

Answer 6

How about in the Old Testament before he was ever even born

http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/messianicprophecies.html

One example:

The Messiah would be the "seed of of a woman" come to destroy the work of the Devil. Not long after Creation, God 'prophecied' to the serpent Satan, "And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel" (Genesis 3:15). The implication was that Eve's descendant would undo the damage that Satan had caused.

The "seed of the woman" can only be an allusion to a future descendant of Eve who would have no human father. Biologically, a woman produces no seed, and except in this case Biblical usage always speaks only of the seed of men. This promised Seed would, therefore, have to be miraculously implanted in the womb. In this way, He would not inherit the sin nature which would disqualify every son of Adam from becoming a Savior from sin. This prophecy thus clearly anticipates the future virgin birth of Christ.

Satan will inflict a painful wound on the woman's Seed, but Christ in turn will inflict a mortal wound on the Serpent, crushing his head. This prophecy was fulfilled in the first instance at the cross, but will culminate when the triumphant Christ casts Satan into the lake of fire (Revelation 20:10).

Answer 7

Josephus, a Roman, writes of the Jewish uprising citing the troublemaker as Jesus the Nazarene.

Answer 8

His years in India have been documented ... In 1887, Nicolas Notovitch - a Russian war correspondent - went on a journey through India. While en route to Leh, the capital of Ladakh (in Northern India along the Tibetan border), he heard a Tibetan lama (i.e., monk) in a monastery refer to a grand lama named Issa (the Tibetan form of "Jesus"). Notovitch inquired further, and discovered that a chronicle of the life of Issa existed with other sacred scrolls at the Convent of Himis (about 25 miles from Leh).

Notovitch visited this convent and was told by the chief lama that a scroll did in fact exist which provided details about the Prophet Issa. This holy man allegedly preached the same doctrines in Israel as he earlier did in India. The original scroll, the lama said, was written in the Pali language and later translated into Tibetan. The Convent of Himis possessed the Tibetan translation, while the original was said to be in the library of Lhassa (the traditional capital of Tibet).

Notovitch eventually persuaded the lama to read the scroll to him, and had it translated from Tibetan by an interpreter. According to Notovitch, the literal translation of the scroll was "disconnected and mingled with accounts of other contemporaneous events to which they bear no relation," and so he took the liberty to arrange "all the fragments concerning the life of Issa in chronological order and [took] pains to impress upon them the character of unity, in which they were absolutely lacking." He went without sleep for many nights so he could order and remodel what he had heard.

From the scroll, Notovitch learned that "Jesus had wandered to India and to Tibet as a young man before he began his work in Palestine." The beginning of Jesus' alleged journey is described in the scroll this way:

When Issa had attained the age of thirteen years, the epoch when an Israelite should take a wife, the house where his parents earned their living began to be a place of meeting for rich and noble people, desirous of having for a son-in-law the young Issa, already famous for his edifying discourses in the name of the almighty. Then it was that Issa left the parental house in secret, departed from Jerusalem, and with the merchants set out towards Sind, with the object of perfecting himself in the Divine Word and of studying the laws of the great Buddhas.

More info here: http://www.inplainsite.org/html/the_lost_years_of_jesus.html

Answer 9

Josephus Flavius, a Roman historian at the time of Christ mentions Jesus in his writings.
Try google too

Answer 10

I really wish you luck. No evidence of him is readily found except in the bible.

Even the Romans who meticulously kept records never mention him. The first century was one of the most well documented time periods in human history and there is no mention of Jesus anywhere except the bible... There is mention of other (fake) messiahs, but not Jesus, nor any of the events in the bible.

So I guess you could say Satan went back and destroyed all the evidence, but that would be a cop-out. Best of luck finding anything.