ChrisJ

at least, according to these <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/" target="_blank">non-christian sources</a>. Thoughts?

IvanK

Read on . . .

The phrase, "we have no access to [Jesus]," in the above suggests to me that the possibility that there never was a single person in history to whom every story we have about Jesus of Nazareth would apply uniquely remains open. That's some way from "Jesus is real."

And if by "non-Christian sources" you mean Josephus, Tacitus et al., what are not clearly later interpolations in those sources are usually second- and third-hand reports of what early Christians said about Jesus, that is, exactly the responses and reactions referred to above. As evidence they don't cut the mustard.