Jesus Christ was a Historical Person

Atheist historians assert that Jesus was a historical figure. http://www.strangenotions.com... As a matter of fact the numbers of professional scholars, out of the many thousands in this and related fields, who don't accept this view, can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Almost without exception, expert historians believe a man named Jesus, recognisable as the one described in the gospels, lived and died in first century Palestine. www.is-there-a-god.info/blog/belief/what-do-the-leading-secular-historians-say-about-jesus "some judgments are so probable as to be certain; for example, Jesus really existed, and he really was crucified, just as Julius Caesar really existed and was assassinated. ". We can in fact know as much about Jesus as we can about any figure in the ancient world." -Marcus Borg, Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University, in The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions "This view [that Jesus didn"t exist] is demonstrably false. It is fuelled by a regrettable form of atheist prejudice, which holds all the main primary sources, and Christian people, in contempt. ". Most of its proponents are also extraordinarily incompetent." -Maurice Casey, Nottingham University, in Jesus of Nazareth "I don"t think there"s any serious historian who doubts the existence of Jesus ". We have more evidence for Jesus than we have for almost anybody from his time period." -Prof Bart Ehrman, University of North Carolina in an interview by The Infidel Guy My opponent is rejecting the proffesional opinions of nearly all historians Secular or theistic. He must claim high ground on the topic over those who are experts in the field. www.is-there-a-god.info/blog/belief/what-do-the-leading-secular-historians-say-about-jesus * The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is the largest Christian Church in Egypt and Northeast Africa. The Church was established by Saint Mark, an apostle and evangelist, in the middle of the 1st century (approximately AD 42) www.is-there-a-god.info/blog/belief/what-do-the-leading-secular-historians-say-about-jesus * -Nothing to the Contrary? If Jesus really were a non-existent figure of history it would be expected that some anti-Christian group would have made this known at some point. In fact the most hostile group towards Jesus and early Christianity were the Jews, yet they affirmed Jesus" existence by trying to accuse the disciples of stealing Jesus" body from the tomb. We also find anti-Jesus material in the Jewish Talmud accusing him of treachery and leading Israel astray. Those that hated Christianity the most just had to discover that Jesus was a figment of the early Christians imagination and expose it, and that would be the end of Christianity, however, not once does this ever happen. Why did the Jews try to explain away Jesus" tomb if there was no Jesus in the first place? * Early Christians were dying for Christ like flies. Why? For what? * The creed of I Corinthians 15:3-5 is dated to within 18 months of Jesus' crucifixion. * Saul of Tarsus knew information about Jesus that were in the 4 gospels. His letters are from within a few years of Christ's life. * Secular history coincides with Biblical history. Other secular historical figures are mentioned in the New Testament. Josephus also mentions these figures, including Jesus. So if a non-Christian mentioned them all, including Jesus, and the gospels mention them all, including Jesus, knowing the other 4 are 100% secularly historical, it serms faulty logic to then assess that Jesus is now fictional. (Luke 3:1) In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar--when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene-- https://en.m.wikipedia.org... https://en.m.wikipedia.org... https://en.m.wikipedia.org... https://en.m.wikipedia.org... https://en.m.wikipedia.org... * The New Testament even got the method of crucifixion right. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org... A discovery at Givat HaMivtar, Jerusalem in 1968 showed a man crucified in the manner Christ was depicted in the NT. His legs were found broken. The NT points out the oddity that Jesus did not have broken bones in his crucifixion. Josephus mentioned there being thousands of Roman crucifixions. Those fighting with Spartacus were crucified by the Romans by the thousands. https://en.m.wikipedia.org... * Finally, if Jesus is not historical, then the NT nailed it by unprobable luck when it claimed the gospel would reach the whole world at a time when there would be a falling away from the faith, and it be overwhelmed by a religion specifically rejecting Jesus as the Son of God, who bow to a graven image, have a great prophet who renounced Jesus as the Son of God, and his followers behead Christians... What are the odds? One in a trillion.