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Question

Did Jesus ever exist? Can anyone prove it? Honest answers only please.

everyone wants me to prove that someone else existed. Its not about that. I live a good life, I respect my wife, my kids and community and so forth I love waking up also. Just because I wake up doesn't mean I had divine intervention.
Having faith is fine I guess, but I have faith in something that is tangible.
Many people don't believe in human evolution, yet the evidence and PROOF is much more apparent than anything with Jesus.

Answer 1

We can know God is real when we experience His reality. God wants us to know that He is real. One way you can find out for sure is through an experimental approach. Pray a prayer like this:

"God, if you are real, show me. If you really exist, I want to know before it is too late."

No one else needs to know if you prayed such a prayer. If there is no God, then He can't respond to any prayer. If He exists, He will show you in a way that is convincing to you.

But really, people who suppress the truth about God are without excuse. The Bible says that God has placed eternity in the hearts of the sons of men (see Ecclesiastes 3:11). You have an intuitive knowledge in your heart that there is "something out there" and that when you die you will still exist somehow - and not just as a memory or idea. Right now you may believe in your mind and with part of your heart that you have well-grounded scientific or other reasons to deny the reality of your eternal existence, but God has made sure that something in you knows that this is not the truth.

God's existence and nature is revealed through what you can see around you in the physical universe AND in your own internal world. Your conscience, mind, memory, will - indeed your whole soul - is a strong evidence that there is a Personal God - one who feels, thinks, chooses and judges.

Can we really believe that all personality and personhood is nothing but a meaningless product of time, chance, matter and energy? And if so, what would be the practical consequences of such a philosophy lived out?

It is actually so improbable that you have no excuse if you choose to believe such rubbish.

All the objective evidence in the world may fail to move your heart if your real reasons for questioning God's existence are subjective.

Answer 2

I don't know, and I don't really care. I am agnostic. I will guess that that man probably did exist. The fact that people claim the Bible is proof is ridiculous. If I wrote a book that said that I am right because I wrote it, would you believe it? But according to the book of Steve, all he says is right. It's a book. Written by man. How brain washed are you? A book. translated a thousand times by a thousand scribes and kings and historians does not make for an accurate interpretation. It would be nice if I could be so ignorantly faithful in what is so hard to logically comprehend.

Answer 3

Roman historian Suetonius mentions Him, as does contemporary Jewish historian Josephus. The Jewish Talmud mentions Him also, to name a few references.

Most of the evidence is "external" in that events concerning Jesus are mentioned by others. For example, the Greek historian Thallus mentions the three hours of darkness that fell when Jesus was on the cross. He called it a "super eclipse" as he had no other explanation for it, even though it happened during a full Moon, and solar eclipses can only happen during a New Moon. That, and the maximum time of totality during a solar eclipse in any one place is 15 minutes.

We believe there was a person named Homer who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, and we believe that there were Caesars because other wrote about them.

With many historical figures, we have no solid proof than they existed, but believe they lived because of writings concerning them.

And with Jesus it makes it that much harder, because there is no tomb to excavate! (smile)

Answer 4

yes - He did.
Honest answers - well the BIble is Truth and all the proof you need.
Read the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. They were Jesus friends and eye witnesses - all four of them pretty much wrote down the same thing. What Jesus shared with them, how He lived, how He died and rose again.
No other religious figure was born just to die for the sins of the world...and be resurrected.
He had an empty tomb...and He's coming back.
He loves u!

Answer 5

Did Confucious exist? What about Buddha? Homer? Muhammed?

How about Abraham Lincoln?

Did the person have to be on t.v. for us to know he existed?

And why is it that you almost never hear someone ask this quetion about other historical figures who made seemingly outragous or incredible claims?

There are many historical accounts written by non-Christians during the first and second centuries AD describing the early Church and their beliefs. We also have the early Church father's writings. Did you know that you can take all of the early Church writings and put them together and quote 98% of the New Testament using them alone?

Try this webpage to get started for more specific evidence:

http://www.carm.org/evidence.htm

Answer 6

Well, Josephus referred to him, as did Tacitus. There are a few other references as well. I'm assuming you don't accept biblical evidence, so those two should do. Josephus was a Jewish historian and Tacitus was Roman. Remember, though, Jesus didn't cause much of a stir outside of Judea. It was only after Christianity took root and began to spread that people really heard about Him.

Answer 7

Yes he did.

There's more proof of his existence than that of Julius Ceasar.

12 guys were willing to be tortured and or die, in order to say they saw him rise from the dead.

Thousands claimed to follow him while he lived.

There are many documents from the first century that talk about his followers in the first century.

Josephus did a life-times research on the former nation of Israel's history and included Jesus and his followers as a section in that volume "The wars of the Jews" by Flavius Josephus.

countless volumes were written by the disciples of the Apostles, who had second hand accounts of him.

find me one person from 2000 years ago you can prove existed more readily than Jesus.

Please.

Even the Jewish leaders of his day are on record as saying that they didn't believe he was the "king of the Jews". Doesn't that validate that he existed?

TEK

Answer 8

There's very little doubt that Jesus actually existed. Whether or not he was divine is a whole other matter. The historian Josephus, a Jewish historian who actually worked for the Romans mentions Jesus.

Answer 9

No one now living on this earth has seen Napoleon or Christopher Columbus or George Washington, but we don't question their existence.

Why is someone who lived and died 2000 years ago still such a huge topic of controversy, and still talked about all over the world every day, if he never existed?

Answer 10

Yes he DOES exist. I was born with seizures and my very last seizure was 5 years ago. I was in the hospital for quite a while. The doctors couldn't really find anything to stop them. But, now I'm on my way to getting a car, better insurance is coming through. I'm so blessed my LIFE is a testimony that Jesus DOES exist !!