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In reply to the discussion: Whether Jesus existed historically [View all]LostOne4Ever
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[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]It is to my understanding that the consensus among historians is that he did exist. Supposedly this based upon 1 of two passages (the first being a forgery and the 2nd authentic) from a Jewish historian Josephus among other things.
I am not a historian, so I will defer to them on this issue. That said, just because there might have been a man named Yeshua (or Yehoshuah) Bin Yosef does not mean that everything that Christians believe about him is true. No more so than the Iliad or Odyssey are true just because Troy actually existed.
I am certain that none of the miracles attributed to him happened. It is not possible to walk on water under the conditions described or in the way described by their book. Further, people do not come back from the dead.
If he was a real man, then he is as dead as any other man who was executed by the Roman empire...and not coming back.[/font]