Do you believe that Jesus is real? If so or if not, please provide proof.?

Question

Thank you for your answers. And I look forward to speaking to you all about it.

God Bless
~Radio

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Yes brother I know that He is real.
My first proof is that Jesus Christ fullfilled all of the 300 sum-odd prophecies which is numerically impossible and not something within human understanding has been done.
These prophecies include but are not limited to;
1) place of birth
2) being raised in Nazareth
3) he came in the blood-line of King David
4) He was a great Teacher
5) He healed and rasied the dead
6) He died on a cross
7) His tomb IS empty

All of these are historically recorded by Josephus and other historians of that time.

My last proof is the fact that way, way, too many prayers are being answered for His faithful who pray in the name of Christ Jesus. If God had a problem with that, eventually He'd say so wouldn't He??

Answer 3

This article is based on this kind of question... may provide answers if you want to learn history.


Hollywood intends to re-write history but one only needs to research for themselves the validity of the claims. For example the quality of the New Testament documents can be validated outside of the Bible through the research of Josephus Flavius, Tacitus, Caesar's Gallic Wars, Herodotus, and Thucydides. In fact there are 5366 documents discovered so far to validate that the Bible we have today is 99.5% as accurate as it was way back then. For example:

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus referred to the stoning of “James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ.” (The Jewish Antiquities, Josephus, Book XX, sec. 200) A direct and very favorable reference to Jesus, found in Book XVIII, sections 63, 64, has been challenged by some who claim that it must have been either added later or embellished by Christians; but it is acknowledged that the vocabulary and the style are basically those of Josephus, and the passage is found in all available manuscripts.

Tacitus, a Roman historian who lived during the latter part of the first century C.E., wrote: “Christus [Latin for “Christ”], from whom the name [Christian] had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.”—The Complete Works of Tacitus (New York, 1942), “The Annals,” Book 15, par. 44.

With reference to early non-Christian historical references to Jesus, The New Encyclopædia Britannica states: “These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the first time and on inadequate grounds by several authors at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.”—(1976), Macropædia, Vol. 10, p. 145.

Internal evidence is pretty clear as well. 2 Peter 3:15-16 clearly states that the canon was already in the process of being collected for what we have today in the Bible. There were gnostic books but they were not accepted because they were written by Hellenistic writers that intended to change the original message of the Greek translation to imply that Jesus was not the Son of God.

See the sources below for addition research.

Source(s):

"Exploring the Da Vinci Code"
"Breaking the Da Vinci Code"
"Is the New Testament Documents Reliable?"
"The Gospel Code"
"Hidden Gospels - How the Search for Jesus Lost the Way"

Last this is a personal favorite of mine...

"New Evidence that Demands a Verdict"

go to any book store and pick them up.

Answer 4

i do not believe that an actual historical jesus ever existed. there is not ONE credible shred of proof from the secular world despite what you see mentioned in answers here. josephus is the most commonly cited as he was an extremely prominent and PROLIFIC writer of that time who wrote on and on ad nauseum about the most minor of people and events. and yet, there is one paragraph, one....paragraph... in a letter he wrote that was many, many pages long in which he makes mention of jesus. the problem is, scholars have determined beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is an interpolation, added to the text after the fact and not by the original author to lend credence to the jesus myth. this same technique has been found in many other texts and attributed to some of the others 'authors' you have seen listed like pliny the younger or tacitus. couple this with the fact that all the other supposed divine qualities of jesus mirror those of saviors from many other religions especially the story of isis, osirus, and horus...you cannot dismiss the almost exact same narrative in these two stories and their cast of characters...read it and you'll see exactly what i mean. there are too many other examples to list here but suffice it to say, in my opinion, jesus is an ideal, a compilation of the qualities and attributes we as human beings desire in a hero, sort of like paul bunyan, an amalgam of the types of person who embody our values, morals, and sensibilities and who we use to point to as an example to follow.

Answer 5

The birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus can be trust and is authentic based on the reliable eyewitness accounts.

The way in which historians determine whether something is authentic or not in history is to look at the eyewitness evidence. Was it ever refuted? Did anyone claim anything different? In Jesus' case the answer is no. No one, even the people who wished to see Jesus discredited could not and did not say anything contrary to what the eyewitnesses of Jesus' said.

Therefore, if thousands and thousands of eyewitnesses spoke and wrote of what they saw Jesus teach and speak it is up to US to determine whether Jesus was telling the truth or lying. Except what He said or reject what He said.

Answer 6

Everybody knows the apostles existed. All the apostles heard what Jesus said, they seen where he went. Judas witnessed Jesus being taken away by the roman soldiers, sadducees and pharasees of which he promptly hanged himself through the guilt he couldn't handle, even though it was prophesied long before. Thousands heard and witnessed the sermon on the mount. Therefore, to deny the apostles existed (pauls tomb was recently discovered), and to deny the thousands that witnessed Jesus' ministry, you're just sticking your head in the mud, and ignoring not only those witnesses, but your own salvation as well.
If you had to go to court and had thousands of witnesses, don't you think all those witnesses would be credible enough to stand before the judge and say "he's innocent?"
They found the bones of Mohammed
They found the bones of Buddah
(and they're >still< waiting for them to come back)
However, they're still searching empty tombs for the bones of Jesus. They won't find them, because he truly rose--ain't no bones about it.

Answer 7

The Bible mentions events and people of the time. You won't find hard to believe the existence of the emperor. Jesus was directly related to the politics of the moment.
Jesus did walk this earth and He wasn't scare as You and I to lose his flesh and bones for He knew that the soul no one can touch. He understood the existence of the spirit and tried to tell us, but, we need more time. A lot more time.

Answer 8

"Tacitus (c. A.D. 60-120), a Roman historian, mentions Pilate only one time, and that incidentally. He contended that the “Christians” derived their name from “Christus,” who “was executed at the hands of Pontius Pilate in the reign of Tiberius” (Annals, xv.44)."

I'm often stunned at the claim of people that Jesus could not have existed because the Romans, who kept such meticulous records, have no record of him.

Since the extant documents of that period would fill a space about a foot wide, it is a rather silly argument. The very few remaining documents we have of that period might be very detailed, but even Pontius Pilate is barely mentioned in Jewish and local lore, and NOT AT ALL in Rome!

I'm not a Christian; not even religious. But I have read the Bible four times, and enjoy studying religious beliefs.

There's more, but it veers a bit from your question, so I'll save it.

Answer 9

Yes I do, Rodeo:

I was an athiest for the first half of my life, then decided to not trust preachers, and search for myself. Asked God that if He was there, He'd direct my studies.

He led me to the Bible, and I matched it with history. There were some mathematical prophecies that caught my attention. They proved Jesus as the Savior, and Messiah.

Not enough room here to show that that it was no accident Jesus was born when He was, and that He was our creator and redeemer. But you can search a document on the internet. http://abiblecode.tripod.com Read chapters 1 and 4; they will change your life like they did mine.

Blessings and AGAPE, One-Way

Answer 10

Yes, he existed.

I know because I can see the ripples his life made in our history.

Just as I needn't see the stone hit the water to know it did by the ripples it makes, so too did Jesus create ripples in society.

This is not to say the NT describes Jesus accurately. I have my doubts about that.

But I don't believe an invented Jesus could have the same influence as a real person teaching what is attributed to him.

Answer 11

I believe that Jesus as Savior and messiah is real, there is no "real" proof, we go off of faith.

Jesus as a man and citizen is real. He was a real guy, he is wriiten down in history by historians of hsi time and not only from the bible.

Its up to you if you believe hes a god.