Why do people say there is no evidence that Jesus walked on earth?

Answer 1

Beats me. They have His tomb. They have a piece of His cross. They changed the calendar from B.C. to A.D. 500 people saw Him. Historians wrote about Him.

Answer 2

Well, most do not say that, even atheists and other non-Christians. That Jesus was a real person is well documented and most understand that he lived and died as told in the Bible.

What many dispute is whether he was who he said he was. Those that do not believe like Christians, believe that he was just another Jewish Prophet.

There is way to much history for anyone to claim he never walked on earth. Although I assume there are some that do, but that is just denying history itself.

Answer 3

There may be some sketchy evidence that a teacher named Jesus walked the earth, but that's not the same thing as evidence that he was the son of God.

Answer 4

There isn't much evidence at all that Jesus walked the earth. And certainly no convincing evidence. The Bible does not count.

Answer 5

For those who are answering that there is not secular writings mentioning Jesus, they should re-check their sources...Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonius and several others mention Jesus or the effect of his ministry..

You also need to consider that in AD70, Rome invaded Jerusalem and the surrounding area and destroyed entire sections of the city...many writings of history were lost forever.

Answer 6

Because:

1) All known sources on Jesus are either directly from the Gospels, were ultimately derived from the Gospels, or are just references to Christianity well after it was established after the death of Jesus and still get falsely cited as "sources". (Compare this to e.g. Julius Caesar; we have many independent accounts that point to his existence. Not so with figures like Jesus, or even Pythagoras.)

2) Even then, the Gospels themselves were written years after his alleged existence. That's like somebody today trying to write the first biography on Elvis Presley with nothing else but hearsay to go on.

3) This is all despite the fact there were so many other scholars around at the time. You would think that if somebody was changing water into wine and raising the dead, that SOMEBODY else would have written about it (and no, Josephus didn't write about Jesus -- the placement and non-chalant description from a Jewish scholar about a guy who "probably was a Messiah" shows that it's an embarrassing forgery).

4) So many aspects attributed to Jesus are archetypes found throughout mythologies that came before it (virgin births, cheating death, etc.). Just read the story of Prometheus for starters.

5) Aspects of the story don't match up with other known history at the time. For example, reigns of kings, certain Jewish customs, etc.

6) Pieces of the biography might have been loosely based on some real people (Rabbi Yehoshua, Pilate, etc.), but on the whole it's quite a stretch to say the man described in the Gospels was real based on that.

Now, does this prove without a doubt that he didn't exist? No. But it's not an unreasonable claim, in light of all this.

Answer 7

John 3:19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.

Romans 1:21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

2 Corinthians 4:3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Answer 8

There are NO SECULAR recordings of Jesus. You had a guy supposedly walking round Jerusalem raising people from the dead etc and NO ONE thought to write it down? King Herod's reign was minutely recorded by Josephus but there is no provable mention of Jesus. It just doesn't make sense!

Answer 9

Because people claim Jesus walked on earth and don't provide their evidence.

This is the main reason most religions are scoffed at.

Answer 10

I've only heard it said that there is no proof that God existed- and there isn't.
If you claim the Bible proves God's existence, then you must accept the Rig Veda and Dhammapada as proof of the Hindu Deities and Buddha's existence.
I'm sorry, but it goes both ways.