How come there is no historical record of Jesus?

Question

there is a record of the Romans, Greeks, etc
but no historical record of Jesus why is that
if he such an important part of human history
how come there is no 100% proof of his existence

please don't say the bible

Answer 1

Because Jesus isnt real. Trust me if there was a guy healing people, doing miracles, and then was killed and rose from the dead, it would probably be mentioned in some other place besides the Bible.

Answer 2

There are a few historical records of Jesus, but the Romans didn't usually mention him because they didn't think he was important.
Why can't you believe the Bible is a historical reference? It is actually a collection of writings by several different authors I guess that's why you don't won't people to say "the Bible," because it is at least 8 historical references to Jesus, but there are some others besides the Bible.

Answer 3

Because the Bible was written to reflect the theme of the Bible that personifiec Jesus the Messiah. All the Apostles who wrte of him wee inspied by aactual events that took place with jesus.The Bible itself is the principal evidence that Jesus Christ is a historical person. The record in the Gospels is not a vague narrative of events at some unspecified time and in an unnamed location. It clearly states time and place in great detail. 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 With reference to early non-Christian historical references to Jesus, The New Encyclopædia Britannica states: “These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the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

Answer 4

Dear LOL,

The Bible is the record. But many historians record the life of Jesus. Finally, if Jesus was a ficticious personality, go to Israel and begin asking about Jesus or pass out Gospel literature...they will immediately put you in jail. Now if Jesus was just astory, why would they put you in jail for telling a story?

Answer 5

Historians don't really debate that Jesus existed, just whether or not he's the son of God. And the gospels are historical documents. Even Muslims believe that he is a prophet. You'd be hard-pressed to find an educated person who said that he doesn't exist.

And to comment on what Great Gazoo said, it's believed that works describing Jesus were passed on by oral tradition, that's why there aren't earlier writings.

Answer 6

There . are quite a few historical records of Jesus. But if you are looking for like His circumcision records, they were all destroyed when the Temple was destroyed in 70AD.
They might be in all the rubble beneath that Mosque that is now built on Temple Mount.

Answer 7

Um...well the Scriptures *are* a witness to Jesus' existence. I know what you said, but why arbitrarily discount them as having no validity whatsoever? Even if you don't believe they are infallible, they are writings which attest to the historical memory of a person, like any other document.

Let me rephrase...

How come there is no historical record of Luis XIV?

Please don't say the books that talk about Luis XIV.

Answer 8

Haha. You don't take World History I take it? Read up therre Bud! There is no other name under Heaven Greater than Jesus! No other person on earth has influenced History like Jesus!

Read John 1:1. Genesis 1:1. 1John 5:7.
Romans 3:23-25

Answer 9

There is a huge amount of historical evidence of Jesus. There is even NON-BIBLICAL record of his appearance to over 500 people after he was raised from the dead. Even the muslims believe in Jesus, that he was prophet of God. Look up Jesus on Wikipedia.

Answer 10

You are absolutely wrong! You need to do your homework better.

Further, it appears you completely discount the independent eyewitness accounts written by the Apostle's and others in the New Testament. Whether or not you believe in God, the Bible is still filled with a tremendous amount of accurate history!

Answer 11

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).