"America won't vote for a Socialist Jew"

[Warren DeMontague]

16. No, they don't actually exist.

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Except for the Josephus account- and the reason it's discredited, among other things, is that to take it seriously one has to believe that a 1st Century Jewish historian would suddenly change his tone radically and write a vastly out of character account in the words of a 3rd Century Christian- there ARE NO other contemporary historical accounts of the life of Jesus. The Bible is the only source.

That is, simply, a fact. Whether or not "Jesus" or someone like him (I suspect there were certainly itinerant rabbis in Nazareth, as well as numerous religious figures and well-documented "mystery cults" of which early Christianity was certainly one. John the Baptist, most likely, was a historical figure) existed, is debatable and will never be resolved without some serious additional historical evidence.

If you want to accuse me of having a closed mind, that's rich. All I'm doing is questioning an assertion that is held as axiomatic in many circles despite having zero corroborating real-world evidence. Maybe Jesus existed, but the evidence isn't there outside of the Bible (obviously, not an unbiased source)... so to assert "oh yes he definitely did" and then accuse others of having a closed mind... pretty funny.