Real talk: Has there ever been any evidence that Jesus actually existed outside of the Bible?

Real talk: Has there ever been any evidence that Jesus actually existed outside of the Bible?

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Yes.

Bible is a compilation of different writings. New testament compilation didn't happen until 400 years after life of Jesus. Obviously not everything written a out Jesus, including some complete Gospels (story of life of Jesus) are not included in the Bible. There is supposedly more historical evidence that Jesus existed than Julius Caesar.

There are more proofs than for Julius Caesar.

Also, noone of those involved in the redaction of Gospels and New Testament ever made it to claim it was all about non-existing things and people. It would have been easy to disprove. If some group pushed a single narrative, every report would have been identical to the others. The four Gospels differ in terms of contents, reorganization, wording, style. Making up a story requires to have every source aligned to a pre-determined narrative.

Thing is, this method also applies to miracles - including the Resurrection. There's no way they could invent such a thing, base it off a few testimonies, have everyone believe it and noone questioning enough what they didn't like.

Yes. Josephus and Tacitus both speak about Jesus.

Funny enough, today is the 1st Friday of the month, that is, the day dedicated to His Holy Heart - that is, the depicted art in OP's pic.

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No.

>New testament compilation didn't happen until 400 years after life of Jesus
True, but the four Gospels were all presented by Flavius Josephus almost a century after jesus's supposed death and we have to just take his word for it that he didn't write them himself. Aside from those scrolls, there isn't one single scrap of paper mentioning jesus or his supposedly growing cult. No personal letters, no ledgers, not even any military reports from the generals who failed to sack Judea before Nero sent Vespian. The first mention of jesus's name in anything other than the gospels doesn't come until after Flavius Josephus talked his way out of execution by convincing Vespian that he was the messiah destined to be the next Caesar.

sorry to redpill you, bruh, but there are fragments of the Gospels dating as back as year 45-50 C.E. (google for "7Q5"), that is, no more than 15-20 years after the facts they tell - that is, when most people who could confirm them were still alive.
Archeology is way less debatable than philology.

Also, many st.Paul's letters were written even earlier, around 35-40 C.E.

But don't cry, you don't need to throw away your Fedoras; if you don't want to be a Christian, you won't be Christian.

Well, I'm posting ITT, so, yes.

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just like now, people lied then about the messiah. people lied about having artifacts. people claim to be the messiah. people claim to have evidence. there are no reliable, proven evidence of a real jesus. only hearsay and conjecture

Hard evidence, no, but there's no hard evidence for most people that long ago. For people that far back the best evidence is usually whether or not other otherwise reliable people wrote about them. This isn't the case for Jesus, as outside of the bible no one else mentions him until long after his death. Historians are divided on whether or not there was an historic Jesus, but the majority agree there probably was. Bart Ehrman is one of the skeptics in the history community - he has a few lectures up on youtube about it that may interest you.

>7Q5
>The majority of scholars have not been convinced by O'Callaghan's and Thiede's identification[1][2] and it is "now virtually universally rejected".[3][4]

I there was also some mentions by Pliny the Younger wasn't there?

Beliving in God isn't about haveing evidence that he exists but just beliving he does

>the majority of PHILOLOGY scholars went full rage because ARCHEOLOGY destroyed their entire careers articles books etc
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>copypasting from wikipedia about Christian things
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Believing in God is about recognizing both His existence and His works.
Note: "recognizing" means you know you aren't telling yourself some religious tale.

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