07-11-2018, 07:37 PM
I am familiar with this issue, but I am no expert. Scholars disagree over how many of the references from Josephus and Pliny were sourced from existing Christian writings (both were born after Jesus died so neither was an actual eye witness), but there is one major reason that I believe that Jesus was real even if he was not holy or magical. I don't see how the myth could have arose the way it did if there was no actual man. It would have to have been created by someone and if the entire story came from one source then that one source would play a much bigger role in the mythology. Instead Christianity is based on multiple accounts from different sources. I can see how myths evolve in prehistoric times with nothing but an oral history. But these accounts of the life of Jesus arose in a very short time period after his death in a time of recorded history and include people who we do have a historical record of actually existing.
