WAS JESUS A REAL PERSON? - PART TEN

                                      WAS JESUS A REAL               PERSON?

      PART TEN

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       Y-Jesus.com)


Here Was A Man

So, do historians believe Jesus was a man or a myth ?

Historians regard both Jesus Christ and Alexander the Great as real men. Yet the manuscript evidence for Jesus is far  greater and hundreds of years closer to His life than the historical writings for Alexander are to his. Furthermore, the historical impact far exceeds that of Alexander.

Historians cite the following as evidence for 
Jesus' existence:

*  Archaeological discoveries continue to verify
     the Gospel accounts of people and places they
     record, the latest being Pilate Caiaphas, and
     the existence of first-century Nazareth .
*   Thousands of historical writings document
      Jesus' existence. Within 150 years of  Jesus'            life, 42 authors mention Him in their writings,
      including nine non-Christian sources. During        that same time period, only nine secular                  authors mention Tiberius Caesar, only five              report the conquests of Julius Caesar. Yet no
      historian denies their existence.

*  Historians, secular and religious, readily 
    acknowledge Jesus Christ has influenced our
    world more than any other person.

After investigating the Christ-myth theory, the great world historian, Will Durant concluded that
unlike the gods of mythology, Jesus was a real person.

Historian, Paul Johnston states that all serious scholars acknowledge Jesus as real.

Atheist historian Michael Grant writes:  "To sum up, modern critical methods fail to support the Christ-myth theory. It has again and again been answered and annihilated by first-rank scholars.

Perhaps the non-Christian historian, H.G. Wells, put it the best, regarding Jesus Christ's existence :

"

Here was a man. This part of the tale could not have been invented.

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Did Jesus Really Rise From The Dead ?

The eyewitnesses to Jesus Christ actually spoke and acted as though they believed He really rose from the dead, after His crucifixion. No god of mythology or any other religion ever had followers of such fervent conviction.

But must we take the resurrection of Jesus Christ by faith alone, or is there solid historical evidence ?  Several skeptics began investigations into the historical record to prove the resurrection account false.  What did they discover ? 

(see Did Jesus Really Rise From The Dead?)
already posted a little while ago.
      
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