User: mr_no_name

The question was whether or not the man Jesus existed. No offense, but I don't see the relevance of your post in regard to this poll boxerkid. Jesus was a historical figure and the evidence of his life is AT LEAST as verifiable as George Washington...more verifiable than Julius Caesar. Whether you believe Jesus was a man, god, or whatever is really irrelevant. The point I was making was that a REAL man name Jesus who hailed from Nazereth and taught in and around Jerusalem roughly around 30 AD really did exist. It is easily verifiable info. His enemies wrote of him. Heck the Roman Governor Pliny, by no means a Christian, called Jesus of Nazereth a "worker of wonders (i.e. miracles). That came from his ENEMY. Why would a man who has ZERO reason to defend the man Jesus' reputation do so???? Again, I am speaking from a purely HISTORICAL context, not a religious one.

speaking as a history buff, regardless of what one believes about Jesus...whether he was god, man, or whatever...to question whether a real historic Jesus lived is as silly as questioning whether George Washington lived! A ancient Jewish historian named Josephus wrote quite a bit on Jesus of Nazereth. The Roman governor, Pliny wrote on Jesus and his followers. These men had no religious motivation to give creedence to the existence of a man called Jesus from Nazerth who taught in the 1st century Jewish world. Jesus...as a real historical person is as verifiable as the existence of Julius Caesar, George Washington, or Abraham Lincoln. Now what each person believes about who Jesus was, is up to each individual. But as for, did the man Jesus exist? Yes...anyone who says different is either being intellectually dishonest or hasn't done any homework. I suggest getting off the computer and taking a trip to the library and do some research. The answers of history aren't hard to find.

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