Does anybody know of any extra-biblical writings about Jesus from people that knew him firsthand while he was supposedly still on the earth? All the writings I have ever read were nothing more than hearsay in my opinion since the writers werent even alive when Jesus was. It would seem very strange for the history books to be completely blank regarding Jesus if he truly existed and was God. Any help?
2007-12-09 13:51:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
There are quite few good ones on this site.
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/infancyjames.html
http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/didache.htm
2007-12-09 14:08:02 · answer #1 · answered by tebone0315 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are none. There are also no writings of Jesus within the Bible either. Nor are there any known writings from anyone who personally knew Jesus, or even friends of friends of Jesus. All we have is ancient hearsay, that was ancient hearsay even at the time it was penned.
By the way, Biblically, Jesus knew how to write. In the story of the adulteress, the story claims Jesus was writing something on the ground. That makes the absence of his writings that much more interesting to believers - or at least it should.
2007-12-09 13:56:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The last part of your question explains the situation. Jesus never really existed. About 2000 years ago various Jewish sects (Theraputae and Essenes for example) began playing around with the idea that maybe a messiah would arrive to save them from the Romans. They gave to him some of the things attributed to the various pagan saviours and slowly but surely built up the story piece by piece. It took many decades to build the story - and not one bit of it is based on fact.
2007-12-09 14:14:51 · answer #3 · answered by youngmoigle 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are none. Not a single contemporary historian mentioned Jesus or anything that he allegedly did. The gospels are the only record we have of Jesus and his life, and they come to us anonymously and were written decades after the alleged events described. Relevant link:
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/jesus.html#sources
2007-12-09 14:29:55 · answer #4 · answered by Brother Jeff 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are first hand bills! of direction the recent testomony records are the main severe historic factors for Jesus of Nazareth. No modern-day pupil thinks of the gospels as bald-confronted lies, the effect of a vast conspiracy. The quantity of time between the events themselves and recording of them interior the gospels is basically too short to have allowed the reminiscence of what had or had no longer particularly got here approximately to be erased. particularly the earliest fragments of the 1st 3 Gospels have been written 25 years after His loss of life. The originals have been surely written before! there are quite a number of accessible reasons for the wait. First, because of the fact the recent testomony writers have been residing in a subculture the place the universal public of individuals have been illiterate, there exchange into no preliminary choose or application in writing it down. a universal-century people in Palestine, by potential of necessity, stepped forward reliable thoughts with a view to undergo in recommendations and pass on tips. 2d, because of the fact various the recent testomony writers might have had severe hopes that Jesus exchange into going to return backing their lifetime, they observed no on the spot ought to write down it down. yet as they elderly, possibly they theory it clever to place their observations down on Papyrus. 0.33, as Christianity unfold all around the classic international, writing grew to become the suitable potential to communicate with the at as quickly as increasing church. In different words, time and distance pressured the recent testomony writers to write down it down. on the different hand, there would possibly no longer have been a spot for a minimum of one Gospel. If those fragments from the lifeless Sea Scrolls are relatively from Mark (and that they maximum in all probability are), then that Gospel might have been written interior the 30s. Why? because of the fact the fragments are of copies, no longer of the unique. If we've copies from the 50s, then the unique ought to have been before!
2016-10-10 23:00:05 · answer #5 · answered by thao 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would someone, not a believer, write about a homeless carpenter who died as a criminal? Your rules of evidence cause a deliberate self made paradox, that no answer can ever be good enough destroy.
2007-12-09 13:59:22 · answer #6 · answered by HAND 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Nephites had experience with Him AFTER His resurrection. He came and taught them and blessed them. You can read about this in 3rd Nephi of the Book of Mormon.
2007-12-09 13:55:41 · answer #7 · answered by LDS~Tenshi~ 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It is useless telling people who has no belief at all.
2007-12-09 13:58:05 · answer #8 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do a search on apollonius of tyrna...some claim that the life of jesus is based on him....peace be with you
2007-12-09 13:56:28 · answer #9 · answered by T B 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If it was cut and dried, everyone would believe, and then where would the "faith" come in?
2007-12-09 14:10:42 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋