Jesus Christ was a Historical Person

Con: "If we had 5 historical candidates (we don"t have one)." If Con is claiming there were 5 Jesus Christ characters, my burden of proof in this debate is complete. * Con: "The Talmud contains second hand references to Jesus. The Talmud is religious as opposed to historical." And it is Jewish and of the very group who rejected Jesus and had him crucified. They had no logical motive to invent a threat to their own religion. * Con: "It"s just a confirmation of the founding of Christianity." Con admits we have a non-Christian confirmation from the first century of the founding of Christianity. * Con: "This is especially true when in the same breath you say that Muslims have it exactly wrong when this is an equally popular idea." Islam believes Jesus existed. Our number of "Jesus existed " believers just went up to more than half of planet Earth. * Con: "There are likely thousands of leaders who have worshipped idols and this is in no way evidence for the resolution." Not that renounce Jesus as the Son of God as a specific piece of their belief system. The Quran repeatedly states that Jesus is not the "Son of God". It is also on the inscription on the Islamic Dome of the Rock. * Con: Point 4: "Where is this in the bible?" 2 Thessalonians 2:4 * Point 5: "Where is this in the bible?" (Rev 6:8) "They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by the sword" Islam is 1/4 of Earth. Their symbol is the sword. A central tenant of Islam is the "verse of the sword". * Con: "I"ve stipulated that there were probably rabbis in the first century named Jesus." Con admits there was a rabbi named "Jesus". * There is actually more evidence for Jesus than Julius Caesar. I assume Con believes Julius Caesar existed. * Jospehus did not believe Jesus was the Son of God. But he wrote about him. Antiquities of the Jews recounts the history of the world from a Jewish perspective. (book 18, chapter 3, paragraph 3) * Cornelius Tacitus, the Roman historian mentioned Jesus death and crucifixion, so he was well aware of the event. https://en.m.wikipedia.org... * Gaius Plinius Caecilius In his correspondence with the emperor Trajan he reported on his actions against the followers of Christ. He asks the Emperor for instructions dealing with Christians and explained that he forced Christians to curse Christ under painful torturous inquisition: And they would not renounce Christ. They preferred death. * Lucian of Samosate -Lucian was a well-known Greek satirist and traveling lecturer. More than eighty works bear his name. He mocked Christians in his writing, but at the same time provided evidence that Jesus really did exist: * Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus -He was a Roman historian belonging to the equestrian order in the early Imperial era. His most important surviving work is a set of biographies of twelve successive Roman rulers, from Julius Caesar to Domitian, entitled De Vita Caesarum. He reports that the emperor expelled the Jews from Rome, since they "constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Christ". * The New Testament itself is Historical Proof That Jesus Existed- https://en.m.wikipedia.org... The Gnostic gospels, unearthed in Egypt in 1945, is a collection of 52 writings concerning Jesus Christ. http://www.pbs.org... https://en.m.wikipedia.org... http://www.neverthirsty.org... https://en.m.wikipedia.org... https://en.m.wikipedia.org... beginningandend.com/jesus-exist-historical-evidence-jesus-christ