Christians, can you please provide me with historical proof Jesus existed besides the Bible?

Question

I know the New testament states Jesus existed, but please what other source can I look at to see if Jesus really existed. Is there any thing written down on him by someone else besides paul and john or other biblical writters.

Answer 1

Have you ever walked on this Earth? That should be enough proof. You have the bible study it. If that's not good enough than you will never receive him anyway.

Answer 2

The large problem with this situation is that there were many men named Jesus in that biblical era. Though it is not often mentioned it is stated in the New Testament that the thief who was released instead of Jesus of Nazareth was fully named Jesus Barabbas. Therefore, anything, document or stone, with just the name Jesus, can mean any of hundreds of those named Jesus. There were probably others named Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus son of Joseph as well.

This both condemns and saves the story of Jesus in the Bible and allows Christians to claim faith rather than fact rules their lives.

Answer 3

Of course there's proof Jesus was born! The precise year is debatable, and it almost certainly wasn't 25 December, but born he most certainly was. Consider the following:

Historians such as Flavius Josephus, Suetonius (official historian of the Roman Imperial House), Cornelius Tacitus (an eminent historian and Governor of Asia) and Pliny the Younger (Roman proconsul in Bithynia, Asia Minor), were four.
Josephus (born around 37 AD) wrote the Jewish Antiquities and described Jesus as a wise man, a doer of wonderful works and calls him the Christ. He also affirmed that Jesus was executed by Pilate and rose from the dead.
Suetonius, in his 'Life of Claudius', refers to Claudius expelling Jews from Rome on account of their activities on behalf of a man called Chrestus - which is a misspelling of the Latin for Christ.
Tacitus was noted for his integrity and moral uprightness. He affirms that the founder of Christianity, Chrestus, was executed by Pilate, the procurator of Judea during the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius. He also recorded that Nero decided to blame the fire of Rome onto the Christians, a despised Jewish sect.
Pliny the Younger was responsible for executing Christians who refused to worship or bow down to a statue of emperor Trajan. In a letter to emperor Trajan, he describes how the Christians sang songs to Christ because he was a god.

There are also accounts from Thallus and Phlegon (historians) who both confirmed that the land went dark when Jesus was crucified. Mara Bar-Sarapion, who was probably a Stoic philosopher, wrote to his son saying how the Jews executed their King (one of the charges brought against Jesus by the religious authorities and used to pressurise Pontius Pilate into having Jesus executed).

There is also the written evidence of Tetullian, a Roman citizen, well educated and versed in the law, who testified that there was what people took to be an eclipse of the sun at the time Jesus died and three days later, an earthquake and the stone sealing the sepulchre where Jesus' body had been placed rolled away to reveal an empty tomb.

Julian the apostate (331-363 AD), the last Roman emperor to oppose Christianity, referred to the records of Jesus being put to death. Although he had every possible reason to refute and defeat the spread of Christianity, he mentions these records about Jesus. Had there been no records of Jesus' existence or execution, he would surely have made that clear. On the contrary, he confirms the reality of the man Jesus.

Answer 4

There is books in India that states that he study there with the priests. And learned how to heal with prayer and teach man to be better. I asked the question earlier about the possibility of Jesus going to India in his lost years and got a good response. You can check out my profile and find that question and read the answers. It might help you with the proof you need besides the bible.

Answer 5

of direction, while you're doing away with Christian writers, its like asserting, "are you able to coach Julius Ceasar existed without utilising Roman writings?" There are a lot of individual writings approximately Jesus written interior of a hundred years of His loss of existence. additionally, Pliny the extra youthful, Tacitus and Suetonius (all non-Christians) wrote approximately Jesus. the suited non-Christian writing of Christ from his term, whether, is by skill of Josephus, the Jewish historian. He took painstaking efforts in making precise histories. He wrote merely slightly approximately Jesus and others suggested in the NT.

Answer 6

Dear Brother why do you have this doubt of JESUS existence! well there are many proofs that Jesus did existed on this earth during the mentioned time firstly and most impotently the date you use is the biggest witness to your question. secondly the tomb where he was kept still lying as it is. and why do you want to know to follow him or just to make fun. if for the second reason then please do not do some thing like this. GOD bless and you and help you to find the truth.

Answer 7

I'm not a Christian, but there are many records in India of when he lived there -- do a search on "Jesus in India." Also, read the Gnostic texts, it's in there as well. There are also documents if you do a search on "historical Jesus."

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlalpha.html

Answer 8

In addition to all these statements the Koran also talks about Jesus.

Answer 9

It is interesting that when people seek historic and scientific proof of Jesus, they immediately discount the Bible as a reliable source.

If we look at the Bible simply as a historic document, it should be among the most reliable on record compared with others.

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.

Still, to put to rest the notion that there is no historic and scientific proof of Jesus outside the Bible, we may look to Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and to Roman historian Carius Cornelius Tacitus - both well known and accepted.

Josephus, in the book Jewish Antiquities" wrote:

"At that time lived Jesus, a wise man, if he may be called a man; for he performed many wonderful works. He was a teacher of such men as received the truth with pleasure. . . .And when Pilate, at the instigation of the chief men among us, had condemned him to the cross, they who before had conceived an affection for him did not cease to adhere to him. For on the third day he appeared to them alive again, the divine prophets having foretold these and many other wonderful things concerning him. And the sect of the Christians, so called from him, subsists at this time" (Antiquities, Book 18, Chapter 3, Section 1).

Tacitus, in writing about accusations that Nero burned the city of Rome and blamed it on Christians, said the following:

". . .Nero procured others to be accused, and inflicted exquisite punishment upon those people, who were in abhorrence for their crimes, and were commonly known by the name of Christians. They had their denomination from Christus (Christ, dm.), who in the reign of Tibertius was put to death as a criminal by the procurator Pontius Pilate. . . .At first they were only apprehended who confessed themselves of that sect; afterwards a vast multitude discovered by them, all of which were condemned, not so much for the crime of burning the city, as for their enmity to mankind. . . ." (Tacitus, Annals, 15, 44).

Answer 10

The Catholic oral tradition that has been handed down since the apostle's time!