Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Did historical Jesus really exist? The evidence just doesn't add up. - The Washington Post

Did historical Jesus really exist? The evidence just doesn't add up. - The Washington Post:
"Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth? 
Image result for Did historical Jesus really existDiscussions over whether the figure known as the “Historical Jesus” actually existed primarily reflect disagreements among atheists.
Believers, who uphold the implausible and more easily-dismissed “Christ of Faith” (the divine Jesus who walked on water), ought not to get involved.
Numerous secular scholars have presented their own versions of the so-called “Historical Jesus” – and most of them are, as biblical scholar J.D. Crossan puts it, “an academic embarrassment.”
From Crossan’s view of Jesus as the wise sage, to Robert Eisenman’s Jesus the revolutionary, and Bart Ehrman’s apocalyptic prophet, about the only thing New Testament scholars seem to agree on is Jesus’ historical existence.
But can even that be questioned?"...
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