The Christian God exists

Rebuttal"If we know that Jesus lived for 33 years before he was crucified, even if the gospel writers were born on the same date as Jesus, they would have been dead within a decade after his crucifixion, as the average life expectancy in the Iron age was around 37."Thinking that the gospel writers could not make it past the age of 37 just because that was the average age of death is silly. The problem with an "average" is that it doesn't very accurately reflect what age people were living to at the time. Two thousand years ago the death rates of newborns and young children were very high due to lack of medicine and all around tough times. If out of 10 people, 5 die before the age of one and 5 live to be 74, then taking the average death rate would give us 37. You can see how infant deaths greatly hurt these numbers."If this is true, then I assume you would also say that the prophet Allah must have been who he claimed to be, and that Valmiki is who he claimed to be, and so on and so forth."I am not in any way saying that the prophet Muhammad or any other is not who he claimed to be. Perhaps God has sent many prophets throughout the ages to preach to many different races resulting in many different religions. The difference between Jesus and all others, however, is that Jesus is the only one who has ever claimed to be God. All other prophets, from Isaiah to Muhammad, have called themselves prophets of God, but never God himself. "If Obama claimed today that he was the son of God and everyone believed it and worshiped him for the rest of eternity, that is still not proof that Obama is the son of God."Of course not, because no one has ever seen proof that Obama is the son of God. No one has ever recorded that he has made the blind see, the dead live and that he has walked on water. No one would bother taking the time to record what he says and no one would die a gory death simply in his name."I agree that the shroud of Turin's negatives produce an image of a crucified man who beard the same general characteristics of Jesus. However, many, many people bear the same characteristics of Jesus even in modern times, and many, people were crucified. It is possible that this is just another person who happens to resemble Jesus."You could of course argue this, but that would be ignoring what the evidence shows. Would there be a man who looks like Jesus, bears the holes in his hands like Jesus and has the wound in his side in the exact same spot as Jesus that is not Jesus?This concludes my rebuttals and I will now provide my final proofs.The Old Testament of the Bible also has many things written in it that aid in the proving of both God and Jesus Christ. First off, some of the things that were written in the Old Testament thousands of years ago do not seem to coincide with the what was known at the time. For example, the Book of Job was written sometime between 6000 and 3000 BC. One line from this book reads, "God stretches the northern sky over empty space and hangs the earth on nothing." (Job 27:7) Somehow before the Earth was even thought of as flat, and it was thought that mountains connected the Earth to heaven, this prophet knew the Earth was sitting in space.Next there are the Messianic Prophecies of the Old Testament which describe the things that Jesus did thousands of years before he did them. It is written that Jesus was to be born in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2) to the Tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:10) and was to visit the Temple (Malachi 3:1) and to have risen from the dead (Isaiah 53:11). These are not ordinary events that anyone could just replicate if they chose to.Finally, some proof that the New Testament is historically accurate and is not a legend, which would not make historical sense. Many details in the New Testament have been verified as not merely incidental, such as the pools at Bethesda (John 5:2). I would like to remind Con that most historians, Atheists or Christians, believe that Jesus Christ was a historical figure that existed just as any other. It is only whether or not he was the Messiah and God that is still debated.