jesus existed?!?!?!?

Question

can anyone please give me the name of people who lived at the time jesus was supposed to have lived that can reference his actually existing? outside of biblical sources.
any historian or cultural person who documented the life of mediterainian people from the time of christ, who also even made mention of jesus.
with the exception of joesephus

Answer 1

There is none.

Two historians - Jospehus and Tacitus - note the rise of the sect of Christians. But they could hardly do otherwise as this was one of the many seditious - in modern terms terrorist - anti authority movements at the time. Both have been discredited as historical accounts of a Jesus figure, and it is known from modern experience that cults can arise around figures who did not exist in a matter of months (this has happened on a number of Pacific islands where islanders associated visiting airmen with the gifts they brought).

There is textual analysis that shows that the bible authors - notably the authors of the synoptic gospels - (most of whom wrote a generation or more after the event) used a common source, often referred to as Q. However, this is more like evidence of a common fictional source. Its like all the material about Harry Potter arisisng from a common source. If the books were lost but the films etc remained would this mean Harry was a real historical figure?

In summary, there is no shred of reliable evidence that Jesus existed. Even less that he was divine.

Answer 2

okay, check it out.
Go to your bookstore, and get this great big book called Evidence that Demands a Verdict. It's by Josh McDowell. It's hundreds of pages long, and it reads like a textbook, but it has all that info in it.

Secondly, You want to get this book called The Works of Josephus. He was a NON CHRISTIAN jew at the time of Jesus, a historian. He writes about Jesus and the whole bit.

Whatever you want to believe, we know historically that there was a real guy named Jesus, Died on a real Roman cross, and his followers claimed a real ressurection.

P.S. Silver, great post, as always. You summed up very nicely what I thought would take up too much space.

Answer 3

for sure, while you're taking out Christian writers, its like asserting, "are you able to instruct Julius Ceasar existed devoid of utilizing Roman writings?" There are a lot of individual writings approximately Jesus written interior of a hundred years of His loss of life. additionally, Pliny the greater youthful, Tacitus and Suetonius (all non-Christians) wrote approximately Jesus. the suitable non-Christian writing of Christ from his term, besides the undeniable fact that, is thru Josephus, the Jewish historian. He took painstaking efforts in making precise histories. He wrote in basic terms a splash approximately Jesus and others suggested in the NT.

Answer 4

Lee Strobel wrote a book or two. Lately matter of fact
A case for Christ. And tonight while out looking for a movie my wife and I found it one the new release rack.
Should look into it in on form or another. Very good reading.

Answer 5

It is very likely that Jesus existed. However, he was human. Jesus would have been what we would call an activist; he saw that Roman domination of the Jews was wrong, and he spread the word accordingly. Later, somebody wove a myth around this popular figure, giving us the Jesus we recognise today.

Answer 6

There is not one contemporaneous historian who documented the life of Jesus Christ....in fact...the so called "saviors" of the time....were all around...and how could someone raid a palace on Passover and not get documented once....not ONCE.

Answer 7

More than half the population acknowledges the existence of Jesus. It is even fact..the only thing that is in doubt is that Jesus was the Son of God, the miracles He performed and that He resurrected after His death on the crucifix. If you need to have evidence to believe anything then I suggest science is right up your alley.

Answer 8

the first-century roman tacitus, who is considered one of the more accurate historians of the ancient world, wrote that there was a man named chrestus [or Christ] who lived during the first century

julius africanus quotes the historian thallus in a discussion of the darkness which followed the crucifixion of Christ

the babylonian talmud confirms Jesus' crucifixion on the eve of passover

in fact, we can almost reconstruct the gospel just from early non-christian sources: Jesus was called the Christ [josephus], did “magic,” led israel into new teachings, and was hanged on passover for them [babylonian talmud] in judea [tacitus], but claimed to be God and would return [eliezar], which his followers believed - worshipping him as God [pliny the younger].

Answer 9

the Cesar of the time Caesar Augustus Tiberius & Pontius Pilot

Answer 10

:)

Yes, Jesus (son of Marry) existed.
You can start reading Quran translation that will tell you he existed, as well as some haddits.


peace