You’re in a conversation and someone says, “No one even knows if Jesus even existed."
What would you say?
While some skeptics on the internet often contend that Jesus never existed, no serious scholar does. In fact, virtually every scholar of history, including those who aren’t Christians, believe that Jesus of Nazareth existed and that he lived in the first century.
The next time someone says they don’t think we can be confident that Jesus ever existed, here are 3 things to remember:
First, several non-Christian historians of that period mention Jesus.
Second, the apostle Paul who had persecuted the Christian Church was a contemporary of Jesus and knew Jesus’ brother James.
Third, most contemporary scholars think that at least some of the Gospels are closely rooted in the eyewitness testimony of Jesus’ disciples.
Thank you to Dr. Michael Licona for his contributions to this video.
Sources:
Josephus, Ant. 18:63; 20:200
Tacitus, Annals 15.44
Lucian, Passing of Peregrinus, 11
Mara bar Serapion, British Museum Syriac MS Additional 14,658
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