Historical Jesus
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To deny the existence of the Historical Jesus, the man recorded in the New Testament Bible, is very much like denying your mother existed. Further, it is likely there is more existing evidence that Jesus lived than the number of available authorities to the fact that your father was born. Here are just 10 facts with links to much more on the Historicity of Jesus.If you are Christian, this could and should help you in your faith. If you are open to learning about Jesus, this may very well be the seed to grow Him in your heart. If you are an opponent of Jesus, I encourage you to read to know your "enemy" better.
- Of events, people, or anything else prior to the invention of the printing press, there are more manuscripts (24,000+) that refer to Jesus than any other person that has ever lived. (*1)
----- - There are over 48 prophecies in the Old Testament concerning a person expected by the Jewish nation as a savior, all written before 521 BC. The probability of a person satisfying just forty-eight prophecies is one chance in a trillion,trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion,trillion, trillion trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion.-----
Jesus satisfied all 48 of those prophecies. (*2) - Wikipedia in the eyes of many is not the greatest source of truth. But, it does give anyone the opportunity to present information and it gives anyone else the opportunity to refute the information. In the link provided here, one can read of much unrefuted evidence, external to the New Testament, of the Historicity of Jesus (*3).
----- - Jesus was born unto a poor woman in a stable in a remote village, the Bible records as a virgin, a woman of faith whose husband was a poor carpenter man of faith. Does it not seem strange that a man that would be so influential even 2000 years after he died would be born of such humble, obscure origins. This would not be the best way to manufacture and make up a story about the would be King of the Jews and The Savior for Christians and all of mankind who believe. Nobody would ever believe this, except for the fact that it must be true.(*4)
----- - Jesus claimed to be and the Jews testified that Jesus claimed to be the 'Son of God'. (*5)
----- - People were amazed at the wisdom and miracles of Jesus. Their amazement is to be understood as their reaction to something they had never seen and unlike anything ever known or heard of. (*6)
----- - In the aftermath of the death of Jesus, a learned man named Saul of Tarsus, a Jew, a Pharisee, a leader, and writer of the highest order of the times of the first century, made it his work to seek out Jewish converts to the ways of Jesus, try them in the courts for blasphemy, throw them in jail, and doing all he could to persecute the followers of Christ. In His testimony, he had a vision of Jesus witnessed and heard by his companions. He himself converts to Christianity after seeing and talking to Jesus in the vision and upon being selected by Jesus, converts and sets his life's mission to witnessing to the world on behalf of Jesus. Never in the annals of mankind has a person of intelligence, learning, power, and influence give up all they had as Paul did. Then, spent most of their life, suffering as he did, living as he lived, witnessing as he did, and dying as he did all for a lie and a dead man. For this eyewitness, Jesus was clearly alive from a Resurrection. If this did not happen as he writes and as written about him, all that Saul, renamed Paul, did and write would not have survived out of the first century. (*7)
----- - A Roman historian born near the time of Jesus was commissioned by the Roman government to write a history of the Jews. In his writings Flavius Josephus clearly wrote verifying this Jesus, the one called the Christ died as a criminal on a cross and was executed by Pilate. (*8)
----- - Of all the material written in the Bible about Jesus and his deeds, there is nothing that was been written at the time to dispute what was said and written about what Jesus did, before or after he died on the cross.
----- - The last element on the historicity of Jesus is the most important. With the testimony of the New Testament, Josephus, and other writings outside of the Bible, a person is required to accept Jesus with the facts of His death on the cross. In the aftermath of His death, there were many eye-witness accounts of Jesus appearing to people over a period of forty days (*10-1), it must be believed that Jesus, as he predicted (*10-2), was raised from the dead not long after being put in a sealed tomb (*10-3). Even the Jewish leaders acknowledge the resurrection of the Jesus, a man they had put to death(*10-4). This was recorded in the New Testament Gospels by eye-witnesses to the event and if it were not true, the recordings would not have survived the thousands of Gospel transcripts that were made. Again, there is not one eye-witness record, not one iota of information written at the time, contrary to what is recorded in the Gospels.
The resurrection of the Messiah, Jesus Christ, is fact and was made possible only by the one True God. In raising Jesus from the dead, God Verified everything Jesus ever did, AND Sanctified making Holy everything Jesus ever said. In this, in reading this you now have a decision to make. Jesus testified to His followers:
© lonnie coggins
It is your decision. One day, as verified by God, you will stand before Jesus. It is not enough to know about Jesus. You must truly know Jesus.
The question is,
will He know you as one who acknowledges Him and lived seeking to love Him and to understand Him as
as Lord and Savior.
Thanks Be to God
TB2G
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REFERENCES
http://www.provethebible.net/T2-Integ/B-0801.htm
*2 Jesus: The Theological Earthquake
*3 The Historicity of Jesus
*4 The Birth of Jesus
*5 http://www.biblestudytools.com/john/passage.aspx?q=john+10:31-41
........http://www.biblestudytools.com/john/passage.aspx?q=john+19:2-12
*6 http://www.biblestudytools.com/mark/passage.aspx?q=mark+6:1-7
*7 http://www.biblestudytools.com/acts/passage.aspx?q=acts+9:1-9
*8 Joshphus, The Antiquity of the Jews, Book 18, Chapter 3, 3 refers to the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate, a passage usually called the Testimonium Flavianum. The general scholarly view is that while the Testimonium Flavianum is most likely not authentic in its entirety, it is broadly agreed upon that it originally consisted of an authentic nucleus with a reference to the execution of Jesus by Pilate which was then subject to Christianinterpolation..Although the exact nature and extent of the Christian redaction remains unclear there is broad consensus as to what the original text of the Testimonium by Josephus would have looked like. --- taken from the early paragraphs of "Josephus on Jesus"-Wilkipedia. [This is well documented in many places found on the internet.]
10-1 "He appeared to them over a period of forty days and spoke about the kingdom of God. "
10-2 It is recorded: Jesus, at least three times directly predicted his death and resurrection
10-3 and 10-4 The Jewish Leaders and The Guards of Jesus' Tomb
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TO DENY THE EXISTENCE OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS, the man recorded in the New Testament Bible, is very much like denying your mother existed. It makes no sense. Click the Link for information about the Historical Jesus. Please share the message on your Fb page as you like, and if you like, click the FB 'Follow' button to have notifications of these publications. For other messages like this, visit my FB page, or on FB visit-"A Daily Thought Group".
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TO DENY THE EXISTENCE OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS, the man recorded in the New Testament Bible, is very much like denying your mother existed. It makes no sense. Click the Link for information about the Historical Jesus. Please share the message on your Fb page as you like, and if you like, click the FB 'Follow' button to have notifications of these publications. For other messages like this, visit my FB page, or on FB visit-"A Daily Thought Group".
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