Do you believe Julius Caesar ever exist?

Question

Hmm, why not Jesus Christ?

Please answer my other questions too. Cheers :=)

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

The existence of Julius Caesar is well documented and he even wrote books himself, like bellum gallicum. He claimed to be of divine descendance, but I don't believe in this.

The existence of Jesus Christ is somewhat documented. Five people documented his life. He claims be of divine descendance, but I don't believe in this either.

Julius, as usual in that time, somewhat bent the truth for political reason. Couldn't we assume that the writers about Jesus did that too? Besides, his life was written down years after his death, based an oral cantings. And the documents differ slightly. Is it possible they didn't get the truth either? o.O

I'm certain Jesus did exist but I think some of the stories about him might have been somewhat exagerated.

Answer 3

Both Julius Caesar and Jesus of Nazareth existed.

Answer 4

i does no longer say that there is extra evidence of Jesus than Julius Caesar, because of the fact Caesar had a TON of evidence left at the back of. regardless of the undeniable fact that, the question isn't approximately Jesus' existence; anybody admits he did exist. The question is on no count if he grew to become into certainly divine or in straight forward terms a prophet killed for treason to the empire of Rome (the killed for treason section we do understand, that's documented in Roman and numerous different writings). there's no evidence by any skill as to Jesus' divinity, that's why Christianity chop up from its mom faith of Judaism.

Answer 5

There are a number of accounts of Jesus outside of the new testement. If you were to do some research you would find this out. There is referance to Jesus in some of the writngs of Cornelius Tacitus a Roman Historian in 112 A.D. Governor of Asia., Lucien of samosota a saturist of the second century, Flavius Josepus a Jewish historian born A.D. 37, Suetonius a Roman historian (A.D. 120), Pliny Secundus (Pliny the younger) Governor of Bythnia in asia minor A.D. 112, Tertullian Jurist theologian of Carthage A.D. 197 . Add to that many of the top legalminds in history come out in favourof the resurrection story being considered reliable evidence that would stand scrutiny in court. These names are Simon Greenleaf, Hugo Grotius considered father of international law, Sir Lionel Lukhood listed in the book of lists as the most successful lawyer in history and knighted twoce by the queen, J.N.D. Anderson, Lord Caldecote, a quite a few others.

Answer 6

Julius Caesar existed and Jesus existed...but Jesus was just a man...not a god or the son of one.

Answer 7

Well there is a lot of documentation for Caesar from all kinds of sources. There is relatively little for Jesus. You have the Bible and a couple of outside mentions about 70 years later.

Look there probably was a man named Jesus, but the actual case is very weak. That is a long way from saying that he was god.

Answer 8

Julius Caesar's likeness was painted and carved on many differnt objects.It was also made into mosaics and struck on coins on thousands of different occasions. The Romans learned from the Greeks and the Greeks reproduced extremely accurate likenesses of human beings. I have no doubt that Caesar actually looked the way he was depicted.
Christ on the other hand was never physically described or drawn or sculpted.
That is actually quite impossible. People always physically describe people to other people ; they may describe them accurately, they may describe them in exaggerated super heroic terms or the may describe them in extremely negative terms , But they ALWAYS describe them.
It's one of the things that all people do along with laughing, singing, and crying.
Homer gives us great descriptions of Penelope & Odysseus and yet 600 years later neither Matthew nor Mark ,Luke or John bother to describe Christ.
How is that possible ?

Answer 9

There is no belief in whether Julius Caesar lived. He lived. Period. There's enough evidence to fill a freight train! Hundreds of thousands of people saw him. How many people saw Jesus? How many contemporary writers (2000 years ago) spoke of Jesus? How many wrote of Caesar? This is no contest! More people wrote about geometry than Jesus!

Answer 10

No document cites Julius Caesar as doing magic tricks and coming back to life. He is much more believable than your Jesus, who, while he may have been a man, was a man whose life story coincides with the mythologies of dozens of gods before him.
See also: Mithra, God of the Sun.