Here's one link that explains some of it: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/godles...atheists-defense-of-the-historicity-of-jesus/
*I* don't have historical evidence. I'm not a historian. I have read books and discussions in which historians have said a teacher existed who fits what we know of Jesus. NOT "son of god". Just a teacher, like who knows how many other teachers, but one whose teachings caught people's attention. Kinda like cult leaders in some ways, but maybe not as damaging.
To accumulate all the sources in which I've seen this mentioned would probably take me the rest of the year, because I've seen it in things I've read as long ago as college. But I'm not asserting that there's historical evidence for Jesus Christ the Son of God and Messiah to have existed. I'm saying that in a number of sources, I have read that there is historical evidence that a *man* fitting the descriptions of the general life and teachings of Jesus existed.
Best Friend is Jewish, and says that he was taught Jesus existed, but as a Rabbi, not a messiah.
*I* don't have historical evidence. I'm not a historian. I have read books and discussions in which historians have said a teacher existed who fits what we know of Jesus. NOT "son of god". Just a teacher, like who knows how many other teachers, but one whose teachings caught people's attention. Kinda like cult leaders in some ways, but maybe not as damaging.
To accumulate all the sources in which I've seen this mentioned would probably take me the rest of the year, because I've seen it in things I've read as long ago as college. But I'm not asserting that there's historical evidence for Jesus Christ the Son of God and Messiah to have existed. I'm saying that in a number of sources, I have read that there is historical evidence that a *man* fitting the descriptions of the general life and teachings of Jesus existed.
Best Friend is Jewish, and says that he was taught Jesus existed, but as a Rabbi, not a messiah.