and these learned Scholars are??? feh...It’s up to 3 scholars now?
So. All those martyrs died, not just for a fraud, but for a fake fraud, to preserve a fake, fraudulent fiction? In a million years, that’s not gonna happen.
People tend to say, at the point of death, “OK, ya got me. What tipped ya off?”
Sure, they can try and explain away Jesus.
But try to explain why prophecy continues to unfold as foretold in the Bible?
This is old old same ol’ stuff.
“Did the historical Jesus exist? A growing number of scholars don’t think so”
Title should read.....
“Does the historical Jesus still exist? A growing number of scholars think so!!!”
Meanwhile a person like Homer, of which there is no direct evidence he was an actual person, is accepted to have been a real person who lived around 800 BC by the vast majority of scholars.
I give the same answer to this every time I’m asked: if you want to know, ask Him and He’ll tell you.
When they meet Him, they’ll know.
Wonder if those scholarly degrees will carry the day at the Judgment Seat? You know, when asked to show if you believed and this crew will show up with their peer-reviewed published papers. Faith in general and Christianity specifically, is not consensus process.
most? more settled science ala gobal climate change evidently...
asI understand it there are a number of Jewish Historians who would differ with.....”most”
I could go on...
There are references to Jesus by Tacitus and Pliny.
Uh huh. Yea. Right.
and these learned Scholars are??? feh...Perhaps the “scholars” aren’t as bright as they suppose?
Flavius Josephis the Roman historian writing in the first century within a generation of the crucifixion:
In Rome, in the year 93, Josephus published his lengthy history of the Jews. While discussing the period in which the Jews of Judaea were governed by the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate, Josephus included the following account:
About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.
- Jewish Antiquities, 18.3.3 §63
No extant examples of Shakespeare manuscripts exist. Did Shakespeare exist? What of Euclid? Typical secular denial of Yashua. There’s more proof of His existence than other historical figures.
If these ‘scholars’ were truly scholars, they would have examined the evidence that so many before them did. And most of these people originally set out to prove Jesus was not the Messiah; they thought they could effectively end Christianity.
These so-called scholars may be intelligent, but they lack wisdom. Let us pray for them.
Jesus is more real than these “scholars”.
They screwed up. This stuff is supposed to be published just before Easter.