Toto

Not so wonderful. We gone round this before.

Before you can answer your question, you have to define the Jesus you are talking about. If you define this Jesus as the son of God, part of the triune ineffable deity, whose life was described in the gospels, you can't prove his existence.

If you define Jesus as a person who had something (even remotely) to do with the founding of the Christian religion, you can probably find (or imagine) someone who might have qualified, and you can think of reasons why nobody mentioned him while he was alive or for 10 or 50 or 100 years later. Which is the position that those who favor a historical Jesus seem to take.

They claim that Jesus was a nobody in a backward province of the Roman Empire, unlikely to excite any interest from the literary elites of his day. But he still inspired the Christian movement that later took over that Empire.

All you can say is that it's possible. But a mythical Jesus might be a better explanation of the facts that we have.

A few of the moderators of this forum are working on an FAQ on the historical evidence for Jesus. You might want to check back.

Peter Kirby

I offer myself as a consultant or contributor to this FAQ.

regards,
Peter Kirby

Julian

That would be great. Look for a PM tomorrow and I will get you up to speed.

Julian