Christians: How do I reconcile this?

Question

This website has tons of varying information regarding the existence of Jesus.

There are many scholarly contributions here, dealing with new findings, archaeology, and the manuscript tradition.

The information by the doctors and professional historians are of particular concern...

Many manuscripts that have been unreadable are now being deciphered using infra-red and MRI scanning technologies.

The evidence seems to be mounting that the Jesus of Scripture never really existed at all!

The "eyewitness" accounts are all just hearsay, and most of the Bible are merely adaptations of ancient mythologies!

Which religion should we switch to, when they eventually prove that Christianity was simply made up!?!?

Here's the website:
www.jesusneverexisted.com

www.jesusneverexisted.com

Answer 1

I am a christian, therefore, I believe in Jesus Christ as my savior. As a christian I have the moral responsibility to bring others to Jesus Christ as their savior. However, I am very aware that Satan will do anything to convince us that their is no such thing as God or Jesus. So I say make up your own mind. Either you believe or you don't. Whatever philosophy you believe in is up to you! Why do you need scientific proof? And if you really do need scientific proof then obviously christianity is not for you. Do research and find who YOU are and what YOU believe in!

Answer 2

Many people give "evidence" from a biased viewpoint. Have you check out any other sites or references that are objective? or maybe even biased from another view?

Form the inner body evidence of the New Testament Writtings, you have a bunch of people that where willing to die for the things they told and taught people. Would you? knowing that it was just something to keep up a facade? Would you be willing to let your family die for it too? as well as the people you were telling it to? Those people that said they were the "eyewitnesses" were. Maybe we could weigh the eveidence a little bit more because some day it will be OUR lives that is in the balance of what THOSE eyewitnesses said and wrote.

God Bless you and lead you to The Truth

Answer 3

The Gospel of Mark would be considered a primary historical source by any other academic process on any other subject. The fact that Christianity has existed unbroken from Jesus to now, including apostles and those who came after the apostles is itself proof enough under any other standard as well. Don't change your standards just because it's the only way to keep the conclusion you already started with before the evidence was ever considered.

Answer 4

Awesome!

This information has been Pouring in for years. The Jesus persona is pure myth, no more - no less.

It's like evolution. No matter what you say, do, prove etc.

NOPE - you are wrong!

Religion was definitely made up. But the problem is WHY was it made it up. Think of its control over the centuries, think of how it is trying to overtake schools and governments. The reason:- Power and money. If anyone defies it - out come the apologists all set to defend it.

This is bad - but what is worse is that people believe it. They actually insist on it..... Truth? Who cares! The pastors and priests are and always have had a field day watching and collecting from the uneducated. They insist you read only one book and ask NO questions. They have the answers and you should only consult with them for answers.

Keep them as children, part of a flock - allow no thinking, no reasoning, and NO questioning.

It is downright laughable.

Answer 5

Trogdor I didn't know you could take human form-excellent.

Higher criticism has been around since the 19th century. There have always been arguments that the Jesus of scripture is not the historical Jesus. These are speculations by one camp. If they had decisively proven their point, it would be more wide spread. Choose to accept their points or not--obviously your call.

Answer 6

--YOU THEN MUST include all of history as mythical according to your reasoning--BECAUSE there is conflict through out history of accurate information of most everyone either to the good or bad; to the correct & incorrect--
--THERE IS NOTHING new that has been done to peoples reputations through all history!
--IF THE INFORMATION of Christ's reality is such a myth, why is it that noteworthy historians make these bold statements:

*** gt The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived ***
--The historian H. G. Wells said that a man’s greatness can be measured by ‘what he leaves to grow, and whether he started others to think along fresh lines with a vigor that persisted after him.’ Wells, although not claiming to be a Christian, acknowledged: “By this test Jesus stands first.”

**A Historical Person
--Yet, strangely, some say that Jesus never lived—that he is, in effect, a creation of some first-century men. Answering such skeptics, the respected historian Will Durant argued: “That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.”

--Ask yourself: Could a person who never lived have affected human history so remarkably?
--The reference work The Historians’ History of the World observed: “The historical result of [Jesus’] activities was more momentous, even from a strictly secular standpoint, THAN THE DEED OF ANY OTHER (my caps) character of history. A new era, recognised by the chief civilisations of the world, dates from his birth"

“Dates before that year are listed as B.C., or before Christ,” explains The World Book Encyclopedia. “Dates after that year are listed as A.D., or anno Domini (in the year of our Lord).”

--IT IS ONLY the modern day "intellectually" so-called genuises that have propounded such a miscarriage of history to try to deny Christ and the Bible as containing the most accurate historical record:

"...Although references to Jesus Christ by early secular historians are meager, such references do exist. Cornelius Tacitus, a respected first-century Roman historian, wrote: “The name [Christian] is derived from Christ, whom the procurator Pontius Pilate had executed in the reign of Tiberius.” Suetonius and Pliny the Younger, other Roman writers of the time, also referred to Christ. In addition, Flavius Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian, wrote of James, whom he identified as “the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ.”
--The New Encyclopædia Britannica thus concludes: “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 (my caps) at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.”

--IF YOU wanted to find a convienent reason to not believe in Christ , you have established your own , by listening to illogical presentations of someone who cannot be erased from any part of history--and taken it as gospel truth!

--IT IS INDEED hard to imagine that people of our age are looked on as greater scholars when such genuises have contributed to the most volatile time in history by the convient religion of skepticism! This proverb has great merit as to what our so-called enlightened genuises have contributed to this generation:

(Proverbs 30:12-13) “. . .There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes but that has not been washed from its own excrement. 13 There is a generation whose eyes have become O how lofty! and whose beaming eyes are lifted up.”

--THUS A NARCISSTIC attitude that dominates the world continues to enlighten the perverse to greater deeds of mayhem!

Answer 7

If one looks at the evidence without agenda and without bias, it becomes clear that Jesus was a real historical figure. Historians who fight against this have an agenda - hidden or otherwise.

Answer 8

Become Jewish. Christians believe all the things the Jews believe in and then some. The Jews believe in angels but no hell. They attend services on Saturday. They are still waiting for the Massiah to come. You won't have to buy Christmas presents.

Answer 9

well, after going to the site, i saw absolutely nothing that proved anything to me. The little science that I saw on the homepage was less than accurate, and no history or geology was actually proven to me. Their views were stated, but had no evidence. It's like if I said "Pluto never existed, and in fact Galileo (the man who discovered most extra-terrestrial planets) was never an actual scientist!" Well, it's an interesting thought, but so what?

Answer 10

I say stop living by what other people tell you and try God for yourself. If you give up ( I know its hard because you are so precious to you) a little of your life and give Jesus an opportunity to SHOW Himself to you, then no scientist or archeologist or other 'ist is going to be able to convince you that Jesus isnt real.

Why? Because what He says will manifest in your life and you wont be able to explain it away as 'wishful thinking' or 'hallucinations'. Just be sincere about being OPEN for Him to prove that He is..and He will.

Thats the reconciliation.