Submitted by Doug (not verified) on Fri, 07/10/2009 - 1:54am.
In the 'Why Don't We Evangelize' section, I've posted responses to most of your arguments. You have yet to provide any evidence that Christ did not exist.
Here is some of my evidence -- Including Josephus, who refer to Jesus existence in more than one place -- not just the 'golden paragraph' which I agree has questionable portions -- there are 10 known non-Christian writers who mention Jesus within 150 years of his life. By contrast, over the same 150 years, only 9 non-Christian sources mention Tiberius Caeser. If you include the Christian sources, the number rises to 43 different authors. Some of these sources, such as Celsus, Tacitus, and the Jewish Talmud could be considered anti-Christian sources. Piecing together what these sources tell us, we have that the following picture which is consistent with the Biblical account...
+ Jesus lived during the time of Tiberius Caeser + He lived a virtuous life + He worked wonders + He had a brother named James + He was acclaimed to be the Messiah + He was crucified under Pontius Pilate + He was crucified on the eve of Jewish Passover + Darkness and an earthquake occurred when he died + His disciples believed he rose from the dead
+ His disciples (all of them) were willing to die for that belief + Christianity spread rapidly as far as Rome + His disciples denied the Roman gods and worshiped Jesus as God
Reference: The Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics(Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker, 1999), 381-385.
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Evidence for the existence of Christ
In the 'Why Don't We Evangelize' section, I've posted responses to most of your arguments. You have yet to provide any evidence that Christ did not exist.
Here is some of my evidence -- Including Josephus, who refer to Jesus existence in more than one place -- not just the 'golden paragraph' which I agree has questionable portions -- there are 10 known non-Christian writers who mention Jesus within 150 years of his life. By contrast, over the same 150 years, only 9 non-Christian sources mention Tiberius Caeser. If you include the Christian sources, the number rises to 43 different authors. Some of these sources, such as Celsus, Tacitus, and the Jewish Talmud could be considered anti-Christian sources. Piecing together what these sources tell us, we have that the following picture which is consistent with the Biblical account...
+ Jesus lived during the time of Tiberius Caeser + He lived a virtuous life + He worked wonders + He had a brother named James + He was acclaimed to be the Messiah + He was crucified under Pontius Pilate + He was crucified on the eve of Jewish Passover + Darkness and an earthquake occurred when he died + His disciples believed he rose from the dead
+ His disciples (all of them) were willing to die for that belief + Christianity spread rapidly as far as Rome + His disciples denied the Roman gods and worshiped Jesus as God
Reference: The Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics(Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker, 1999), 381-385.