• @[email protected]
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    15 months ago

    I’m not going to link to a bunch of different papers for you since you can’t be bothered to Google before you comment so here’s a Wikipedia article. If you’re here in good faith you’ll know how to follow the sources and find the evidence, if not you’ll reply with some more idiotic denialism.

    • @Crashumbc
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      25 months ago

      There is evidence a “prophet named Jesus” existed. Of course “Jesus” was an extremely popular name. And there were tens of thousands of “Prophets” running around claiming they were the true one.

      It’s simple survivorship bias. There is ZERO evidence the biblical Jesus existed…

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      That’s fair. I don’t mind looking into the article.

      The first, and subsequently multiple, source in the article claiming that Jesus was real is from William R. Herzog. He was a Presbyterian minister.

      Mark Allen Powel is also sourced. An ordained minister of the American Lutheran Church.

      I’ll look into more of it later, I’ve got things to do. But so far it’s all church members affirming the belief.

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        35 months ago

        I found one source linking to Herzog and Powel and it’s the same claim that “the only historical fact we can confirm about Jesus in the Bible is that he was baptized and crucified.”