@lyssasphere
There are no contemporary accounts of Jesus from the actual time he is believed to have existed. Nothing written down. No records in legal systems. There is zero evidence of his life.
However lack of evidence is not evidence of absence. Logically we cannot say he did not exist.
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@Az_
@lyssasphere
Contemporary meaning outside of the Bible I assume? Because some gospels and an early creed date to the time eye witnesses would have been alive.
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@MaxedLuck
@lyssasphere
Of the core Gospels the earliest date we find is for Mark which was penned 40+ years after the supposed death of Jesus. Paul was written earlier but never met Jesus. Still was a decade after Jesus was executed.
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@Az_
@lyssasphere
No serious historian doubts the existence of Jesus…if you want to ignore the contemporary Roman sources of Josephus and Tacitus, you can throw out significant portions of 1st century Roman history with him
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@silvertongue39
@lyssasphere
First of all those are not contemporary. They are historically close but their accounts are 3rd hand at best. They never met the man.
That being said I do somewhat accept that there may have been a man named Jesus teaching things. The Jesus of the bible is a different order.
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