🤔 Question of the day: What would YOU say is the best evidence for the historicity of Jesus? Let me know in the comments. ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️

Watching these videos is incredibly helpful to me as a person studying conformation bias.

Literally the best presentation on the historicity of Jesus i ever heard. I understand the topic so much more clearly nowm thanks so much!

I enjoyed the content it was very well done. All too often when one tries to research the topic of an historical Jesus the videos are vague and leave a lot to be desired.

When I read the gospels I always have the thought 'Who would make this stuff up?' I mean really. For example, the story of Jesus's garment being touched by that woman with menstrual problems. Nobody would even think of making that up!!! This is one of my arguments anyway....if Jesus was fictional, the stories would be more 'normal'. Thanks for this video 🥰🙏

Besides this informative and valuable presentation, the other fascinating thing is that you answered everybody who has made a comment here!! Impressive.

I really loved your presentation, Jay Smith in one of his presentations has an individual by the name of Phallus I believe? In Greece, a few years after the crucifixion, talking with somebody else whose name I can’t remember about the earth going pitch black just after the event happened. Do you know anything about it?

The writing of Justin Martyr, Ignacious of Antioch, Clement of Rome are not in the Bible, but they were contemporaries of some of the Apostles and their first followers. They wrote extensively about Jesus.

This is very informative. Thank you Dr.Mikel. God Bless you!!

This was outstanding Mikel? great job!

Awesome talk. Thank you so much. I will be checking out the rest of your material. This is VERY needed right now.

This is a powerful lecture! Thanks for sharing!

A worth to save video to be better equipped. Thanks much

I really enjoyed your matter-of-fact presentation. So many apologists, try to 'convince', whereas you have just shown the evidence available, not only for the historical Jesus, but also what even his critics said of him. I like your comment, 'It's in the Bible because it is true!' This is a more acceptable statement for non-believers than 'If it is in the Bible it must be true'. That is such a barrier for so many people these days. Thank you.

"All things are similar if you ignore the differences." I'm going to remember this! I love it!

What is the best evidence of jesus’ resurrection?

Thank you so much, Mikel! Sharing this on my blog... 1 Peter 3:15! Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours!

Tremendous presentation! God bless you richly!

I'm from Guam. I just found this video because I wanted to strengthen my faith. Thank you for sharing this.

Hello, I am glad I found you on my walk. I would say that the evidence is my changed life

Dropping by as I have a friend who was “attacked” on YT for her arguments about Jesus’ existence as historical fact. If I’d have those kinds of comments, can I direct them here?😅 ‘cause you have the ammo in hand. I still have to learn more on apologetics. My strength is more on teaching on spiritual growth and discipleship.🤪 To answer your question, I believe the apostle Paul is in Roman history and that part from being persecutor to christian was recorded. The reason why he was “converted” wasn’t mentioned there but we all know what it was. I’ll have to double check my sources though. - Hanna

How many times must this take? Do we see the Word GOD has a Whole middle way to measure together?

Thank you for sharing. I think I need to take notes on it to fully grasp everything.

Loved this so much! Thank you!

Fantastic lecture, do you have an email I can reach you on?

I am having doubts as a born again Christian. I believe it’s spiritual warfare after falling into sexual immorality. The devil can get a foothold due to that kind of sin. I never had doubts before. I hope he didn’t harden my heart. Jesus is my ultimate treasure 🥰🥰🥰

How does one example from Zeitgeist being wrong mean that no elements of the stories about Jesus were borrowed from other stories?

Love Apologetics showing history and truth from all kinds of ancient sources who even opposed Christ just gives me that much more faith

Thank you, Dr. Del R, for your scholarly testimony about the existence of Jesus, a slap on Dr. Carrier on his insistence that Jesus was a myth, clearly ignoring or brushing aside the same evidence he also knew and read about, just to sell his books knowing people love controversy.

It would be intresting to see the info of this video stacked up with the prophecies of the OT pretaining to Jesus historically. That would be perfectly undeniable.

Does it matter whether he did or not, and if so why?

Great presentation. God bless you.

what are the best contemporary eyewitness we have on Jesus ?

Thank you for your research, this is very good work here.

what must I do to be saved

Hey, at the minute 22:9, you said us to look in the Bible for the confirmation in Luke 1, verse 3, but actually, the numbers should be inversed, because it's in Chapter 3 of Luke, verse 1. :) Btw, thank your for this video! May God bless you!

Very nice !!! Noted the content

Great talk and very helpful. Thank you very match!

Where's the government documents from Jesus' time ? There surely has to a lot of other proof to repeat what the Bible says,,why would it be concealed?

I appreciated this presentation, and I learned from it, but I take issue on the suggestion that someone added to Josephus. I'm surprised to hear him just repeating what atheists say about Josephus. They say, Josephus wouldn't have written that because he was a Jew." JESUS was a Jew. Many of His disciples were Jews. Paul was a Jew, a Pharisee, and a Roman citizen. ALL of them, including Jesus himself, said that He was the Christ. Whether or not Josephus was a follower of Jesus, there is no reason why he wouldn't have written the things other Jews had written, and continued to write about Him. I have no doubt Josephus wrote it. The mythicists only say it was added so they can continue saying that there are no extra-Biblical sources for the historicity of Jesus. Christians should never help them in their revisionist history.

Glory be to God and our Lord I have never doubt the existence of my Lord jesus and I will never ever even in my grave jesus is and will be my Lord and salvation

I ask all GOD disbelievers to watch this critically important video while there is still time to be forgiven and Saved from eternal condemnation

Excellent!!!!!

You are amazing. I'm so glad I found you!

Uh oh, B-26 not B-52.

Wow! Great video, thank you. ❤️❤️❤️

May positivity and strength surround anyone reading this. Believe in yourself, for you have the power to overcome any challenge. 🌈✨

I would say with the evidence you are trusting your entire identity on you might as well believe in all the Gods.

Thanks sir.

Great talk, really nice job!

Fantastic ❤

That’s was good 😌

Some 5,000 show up to hear him, there is a big spectacle of Jesus speaking with the Roman ruler and you say “it was a little thing, therefore it would be like Guam is to the US? Huh.

The reason Jesus became very popular is because of the claim of accepting Jesus guarantees eternal life and the forgiving of sins. It was the best offer than any other religion for pagans.

"The Crucifix Fish Testifies" Look it up. This proves beyond a doubt that the crucifixion happened, how it happened, and also that the resurrection happened.

why fake green screen a talk? Or do my eyes deceive me?

i doubt that any god would get his message out via a collection of paper scrapes and tall stories...he could just text us all today..But nay...too busy

This so much more evidence that I usually have heard. Amazing

Im inspired by the replies of lets just say agnostics people to at least be opened yo this faith based but in time is becoming fact correlation eith historical evidence 😮

Wow!!!!

The way a court looks at forensic evidence is the same way a historian looks at evidence? Why did you make a courtroom analogy to explain how historians look at evidence?

I don't need evidence or proofs.. I believe Jesus Christ is true and real because God said it IS!

Tacitus

Three reasons why one (not relying on faith) should be agnostic about the claim "Jesus certainly existed". 1) The Gospels/Acts are overflowing with signs of literary fabrication. "Those who want to find a historical record in Mark face an even greater obstacle than the ambiguous evidence for Mark's literary borrowing of non-Jesus material to create Jesus stories. This obstacle is the fact that if Jesus' earthly ministry actually happened as Mark portrays it, the history of Paul's Gentile mission and the opposition it encountered would be incomprehensible. How could it be that neither Paul nor anyone who worked with him, nor his opponents, knew about Jesus' determined endorsement of a mixed community sharing table fellowship together? How is it that everyone somehow forgot that Jesus explicitly "declared all foods clean (7:19)"? In the pitched battles Paul waged against his Judaizing opponents in his epistles, any one of the many stories about Jesus' conflicts over Law observance would have been devastating evidence of the rightness of Paul's side, yet none are ever mentioned." Tom Dykstra, Mark, Canonizer of Paul, pp. 229-230 "A raft of scholars, including Randel Helms, Thomas L. Brodie, John Dominic Crossan and others, have shown again and again how this and that Gospel passage likely originated as a Christian rewrite of this or that Old Testament passage." Thomas L Thompson, Is This Not the Carpenter, pp. 113-114 "Yet, regardless of the difficulty, comparing Luke-Acts and Mark with this verifiable literary antecedent is worthwhile. A key reason is simple: in looking for a literary precedent to the Gospels there is no verifiable pre-Christian text which comes as close to any gospel as the Elijah-Elisha narrative does to Luke-Acts and Mark." Thomas Brodie, The Crucial Bridge, pp. 97 "While issues with the gospels are certainly not enough to rule out the possibility that there was a historical Jesus behind the gospel story, it also cannot be said with certainty that there must have been one. The lack of primary sources and the problems with the Gospel stories alone, would seemingly justify having some doubt." Raphael Lataster, Jesus Did Not Exist, Sources: We All Know They're Rubbish - pp. 35/73 "The use of cycles, parallels, repetitions, melodramatic characterization, stereotyped scene construction, inventing or presenting stories that replicate biblical narrative, unbalanced narrative with evident symbolic import, and a balanced structure-all these raise insurmountable objections. History cannot be quite so symmetrical. In addition there are any number of historical problems." Richard Pervo, The Mystery of Acts, pp. 151 Note: Nowhere in Acts do the authorities show concern that Jesus escaped justice. "Despite scholarly efforts to detect an underlying Aramaic original for Mark or Matthew, it is probable that all the evangelists wrote in the common (koinē) Greek of their day. Further, the vast majority of Hebrew Bible citations in the New Testament are taken from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible (the Septuagint)." "Large sections of Matthew, Mark, and Luke repeat stories about and sayings of Jesus in nearly identical words. Hence these three Gospels are referred to as the “Synoptic” Gospels. On a linguistic level, both Luke and Matthew improve on Mark’s style, smoothing out inelegant expressions and repetitions. Luke eliminates Mark’s characteristic use of parataxis (one short phrase following another without indicating how they are related) by employing balancing particles and subordinate clauses. Matthew follows Mark’s outline, though the insertion of considerable sections of discourse material may obscure that relationship for the casual reader. Luke knows most of Mark but has no parallels to Mk 6:45-8:26; whether Luke chose to omit this section or had a different version of Mark remains unclear. Detailed analysis of the traditions shared by Matthew, Mark, and Luke provides strong support for the view that Mark provided the template that Matthew and Luke revised, both correcting and smoothing out its language and expanding the Jesus material it contained." "While the Synoptic Gospels have a close literary relationship, the Fourth Gospel, the Gospel of John, presents a much greater puzzle. Its chronology of Jesus’s ministry differs from that of the Synoptics. In John, Jesus spends three years preaching, during which he journeys between Galilee and Jerusalem; in the Synoptic Gospels, he visits Jerusalem only once, at the end of a ministry that apparently lasted less than a year." The New Oxford Annotated Bible NRSV, pp. 1380-1381 2) The earliest Xtian writings (Pauline Epistles) are odd when looked at closely. Paul is adamant that his Gospel is not from humans, but from scripture, and visions/dreams (Gal. 1:11-18, Rom. 15:4, 1 Cor. 15:3-8). A secret hidden through the ages now revealed (Rom. 16:25-26, 1 Cor. 2:6-7). Also Paul says his apostleship is by the same means as the founding Pillars (Gal. 2:6-8). Paul's preexisting being was killed for looking like a human (Phili. 2:7), and his killers would not have killed him if they knew it was God's secret plan for mankind's salvation (1 Cor. 2:6-8). This makes more sense when looking at the Joshua/Jesus in the OT who tricks Satan and is exalted by God. Note that these verses have what can be perceived as symbolisms for flesh (dirty clothes= sinful flesh & Five Kings= Five Senses that enslaves one to sin). So Zech. 3:1-9, 6:11-13, & Jos. 10:22-27 together symbolically has a Jesus in a flesh disguise getting hung in a tree, shoved into a tomb, and exalted by God to remove guilt of the land. Zechariah 3:1-9 "1 Then he showed me the high priest Joshua (Savior) standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan (Adversary) standing at his right hand to accuse him. 2 And the LORD said to Satan, "The LORD rebuke you, O Satan! The LORD who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this man a brand plucked from the fire?" 3 Now Joshua was dressed with filthy clothes as he stood before the angel. 4 The angel said to those who were standing before him, "Take off his filthy clothes." And to him he said, "See, I have taken your guilt away from you, and I will clothe you with festal apparel." 5 And I said, "Let them put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and clothed him with the apparel; and the angel of the LORD was standing by. 6 Then the angel of the LORD assured Joshua, saying 7 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: If you will walk in my ways and keep my requirements, then you shall rule my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you the right of access among those who are standing here. 8 Now listen, Joshua, high priest, you and your colleagues who sit before you! For they are an omen of things to come: I am going to bring my servant the Branch. 9 For on the stone that I have set before Joshua, on a single stone with seven facets, I will engrave its inscription, says the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the guilt of this land in a single day." Zechariah 6:11-13 11 Take the silver and gold and make a crown, and set it on the head of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak (Savior Son of the Righteous God); 12 say to him: Thus says the LORD of hosts: Here is a man whose name is Branch: for he shall branch out in his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD. 13 It is he that shall build the temple of the LORD; he shall bear royal honor, and shall sit upon his throne and rule. There shall be a priest by his throne, with peaceful understanding between the two of them." Joshua 10:22-27 "22 Then Joshua (Savior) said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings out to me from the cave." 23 They did so, and brought the five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. 24 When they brought the kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the Israelites, and said to the chiefs of the warriors who had gone with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings." Then they came near and put their feet on their necks. (see Psa. 110:1/Heb. 10:13) 25 And Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous; for thus the LORD will do to all the enemies against whom you fight." 26 Afterward Joshua struck them down and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening. 27 At sunset Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves; they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day. (see also Deut. 21:22-23/Gal. 3:13)" 3) Verses held up as undeniable evidences for an historical Jesus have plausible alternative explanations. The verse Gal. 4:4b "God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law," looks to have Jesus born of a woman, and is Jewish. But what Paul could mean is that "woman/law" is Divine Wisdom (Greek Sophia personified feminine wisdom/see Prov. 3:13-20, 8:1-36, Baruch 3:37, 4:1) in that Jesus was made all knowing unlike Adam. The verse Gal. 1:19 "but I did not see any other apostle except James the LORD's brother." is seen as a slam dunk for historicity. But Paul's theology is of spiritual kinship (Gal. 4:5-7) and everyone in Christ are brothers/sisters. Paul makes no distinction that this James is blood related to Jesus, and maybe "Lord's brother" is a cultic title? The verse Rom. 1:3b "who was descended from David according to the flesh" (2 Sam. 7:12) is good evidence for historicity. But 2 Sam. 7:12c "who shall come forth from your body," can mean God made a flesh body from David's semen for Jesus (it was a belief that the male seed contained the whole body). This is a convenient way to fulfill messianic prophecy for a celestial event instead of on Earth.

28:00 Mexico is full of jesus names...even so Jesus was not a middle eastern name.just like native americans would not be call John Smith ot Susan Jones 400 years ago.

OK if there god why is the world full unhappiness then why the god hiding all the time why don't he show himself then

Did Jesus exist? He has always existed... The same yesterday today and, forever!!! The tomb is empty., The veil in the Herodian temple was torn from the top to the bottom.... Signifying there's no separation between man and the Holy God... Forever....💖🕊️

How can you say that mixing Christian beliefs with pagan stories wasn't done or wouldn't make Christianity more attractive to nonbelievers? That's exactly what the Roman church did over and over and over again... And it worked really, really well... Or did we imagine all those Easter egg hunts at churches all over the place last weekend?

What if I believe in Jesus Christ, but question the Bible? I 1000% believe Jesus lived and died as resurrected for the savior of humanity through Gods mercy and grace. I do question the stories in there.

There is an incredible amount of bad evidence for historicity. Zero good evidence. You need to explain why there is an alarming lack of contemporary evidence and only later historians quoting from Christian sources. In short, evidence for historicity is at best very weak.

"Many things would be different if Jesus never lived..." Except that none of the things you listed require Jesus to have lived. People believe things and worship beings that are not true. They make art and build civilizations around false ideas all the time. I'm not arguing for or against the historical "Jesus." I happen to think there's a real person the stories are based on, but that's not required for a religion to exist or for people to do things in the name of that religion. FWIW, much of the art and music made depicting biblical people and stories were done because the Catholic Church was paying the most for the best art and using it as propaganda. It's not a mystery that we have a version of Jesus for every culture where he's preached. I'm in for the long haul, still going to watch the whole video. Wish you hadn't come out of the gate with that kind of choir goosing.

I don't have time for a 45 minute video, but if there was ANY evidence of God, he'd be able to provide the information in 5 minutes or less. The same way I can disprove the validity of the entire bible in a single paragraph. It's actually very simple when you aren't a coward who has an emotional attachment to a fictional belief system. Science has gone far over the last couple centuries. Learn it, or risk living your life in the pursuit of ignorance rather than knowledge.

Refer to historian scholars for historical facts.Not individual thought.

I found this searching for info for my Sunday school lesson. I'm doing the study "The Jesus you may not know" with my teens and wanted to start off with this topic. God let this pop up. Thank you Lord, for Your guidance. Please pray for youth today. They are navigating a world that is like a mine field of wickedness waiting to destroy them. School really IS, as bad as you hear.

The Bible is Truth. It's the Word of God. Stand on the Word of God. He's the ONLY authority. Atheists always want to keep the Bible out of it, because the Bible is Truth. It's your sword and your shield. Put on the armor of light. Bring the Bible into it, and use it to stand your ground.

Thanks bro go on show the doubting Thomas's that God of the Bible lives.

Again scripture written by a guy back when that has all questions and hypocrisy…scripture is not proof…or evidence a very old document does not make it accurate or even truthful

Here is your non-biblical proof that Jesus existed.......Whose name do people curse in vain all over the world? Tell me if you know. Allah? Nope. Karma? Nope. The pope? Nope. Evolution? Nope. Do you want me to go on? The only name used in vain around the entire globe is Jesus. Why, because it breaks a commandment!

Heron of Alexandria was an inventor, scientist & engineer in the 1st century. He lived during the time of Christ He invented 3 different trick devices to turn water into wine. He never mentioned the existence of Jesus even tho Heron & his inventions were well known between Egypt & Greece

I have to ask. If Jesus was real, where was he really from? Seems to depend upon which gospel you choose. Choice one Nazareth, choice two Bethlehem. Here is one where you loose. BTW. it was a B-17 that hit the Empire State Building. Not a B-52. Check it out for yourself.

When you talk about Celsus, you are playing pretty fast and loose. You don’t bother to mention that he’s writing in the second century and is making fun of the Christian practices and beliefs, not attesting to the historical existence of Jesus.

If God exists why would he need a man to justify his existence? If the Bible didnt exist how would humans gain knowledge about this God?

I found a couple errors in the Bible that can be debunked sadly, but I wasn't sure about the resurrection. I still think jesus rose again, but not sure if he even existed.

You start the talk by saying let’s talk about Jesus, and you immediately switch to talking about Christian’s and Christianity. It’s a bit like saying “let’s talk about the historical Mickey Mouse” and immediately switching to talking about Disneyland. Not a good start.

You asked me to come here and comment so I'll post the same text. I disagree with your finding, just because we don't have document for other people of the time of the Jesus character says nothing about him being a god. If he was a god then it would be in the best interest to 'inspire' people to write about him. A clear failure of this supposed god. However, it fully fits the no god idea. After all christians say that the collections of writings are inspired by god. It does not make any logical sense. Without the originals then we are stuck not knowing what was actually written in these "Gospel stories." So to say other people were also not written about is really no good evidence for the character of a Jesus. We don't have any originals and the earliest fragments are copies of copies. Minimum 50-70 years then 150 years and far beyond that. I'll say it again without originals we have no idea what those originals even said to begin with. Then the 'we don't know who wrote them' along with the other writings that were tossed out by the early church as it went about just making stuff up with what goes in and what comes out. Textual analysis shows how they were copied from each other. As Bart Ehrman suggests read the gospels across each account and you quickly run into some serious problems that are not explained by different points of view. Just think for a moment, if there was a god then this is a really bad way to keep his precious book don't you think? We should all know and there would not be the need for anyone to call themselves an "apologetic" as even you do. The fact that we have any of these 'apologetic' is a really big sign that something has gone terribly wrong with the '''word'''. People are fed nonsense in church and from a young age until they become convinced of what they is true without the necessary good evidence. Just don't ask questions and continue to pay your 10%. I actually think that without that 10% people would just let it die out. One generation of people stopping putting this nonsense in the heads of children should put an end to it. It's not like birthday cake candles where for one generation everyone in the world stops this nonsense to children then the god pops up and relights everyones candles again. Please don't give me the 'sin of man' nonsense because it a ridiculously floored argument. We are born broken? Really!! Then as broken people how can we know there is this loving god who just happens to have a furnace for us for 'all eternity' when we get it wrong. Then which 'apologetic' and or 'preacher' and or which 'religion' do we listen to? There are many, can you say you are correct over the other 'apologetics' peddling their versions? The fact is people become convince by both good and bad reasons. There are many christians that certainly have got it wrong as there are over 1000 (One Thousand) versions of christianity alone. Forgetting about the other religions. That shows how poor and old Bronze Age book is at conveying a single message. Isn't it strange how, for most, we take on the religion of our parents. Isn't it lucky that we are born into the correct religion and then the correct denomination at that. WoW what are the chances of that? This is truly the most silly thing when you actually research and find that there is zero "good" evidence for the positive claim of the supernatural. The issues come down to childhood indoctrination stopping critical thinking skills. Any thoughts from your side? Stay safe - Gray

Jesus Exist he’s just like us Humans its not hard to Believe that. Whats hard to believe is that Jesus didn’t have Bible to begin with he use no scriptures. The People who made the Bible are not a reliable source they could be just as a bad Actors. Also Bible has been rewrite, edited many times. I don’t think Jesus Approves everything thats says on the Bible. Here’s the most annoying facts Jesus did not Know Paul, Paul is the Author of New Testaments of the Bible. Im catholic but i dont accept Pope and priest, and You the guy talking on Stage you can talk about the Bible but to me that is not Valid.

quick synopsis - no proof at all

There has never been any acceptable proof that the biblical Jesus existed. The bible has never been acceptable proof.. If you wish to prove his existence to yourself, in your own way, be happy.

Yehoshua Jehovah is Salvation. Mashiah, Anointed. Joshua the Anointed, Greco Roman Anglo Saxon Americanized Jesus, Joshua, Christ, Anointed. Maybe that could be the reason it was said many will call my name but few will be chosen. If someones calls you by someone else's name are you going to be answering them? "This person called Jesus" didn't exist until Greek translation??? The truth shall set you free, Lol. Jews are of Israel but all of Israel is not of Judah. Jesus Christ is all Greek??? to me. Lol.

So no evidence. No proof of demonstrating what he was claimed to do? Got it. Now do Santa clause.

Your reasoning is not convincing there are many scholars today that say that Particular Jesus may not have existed . However the actual name for Jesus in Hebrew was as common as John is today, So chances are someone with that name it exists and did get crucified. However that does not mean he is the messiah As you misunderstand what messiah is obviously. Even if this Jesus actually existed you have a total misunderstanding of tanak Or as you pagans call it the Old Testament. The mythology that has been associated with the man is nowhere to be found in tanak. Even if that man Jesus existed he is not the one that made your belief pagan your forefathers have , We have inherited lies from our fathers,you have a total misunderstanding of YHVH. Creator is not a man Nor do you have to have sacrifice to be forgiven for your wrong doings. According to Old Testament you turn back from your wrong doings and take hold of what creator told Israel at the bottom of the mountain. You do not engage in human sacrifice That is against Torah Nor are you allowed to engage in symbolic consumption of human flesh or symbolic consumption of drinking human blood for atonement . Your atonement is to turn back from your wrong doings ,which is what creator said which is Torah. But I expect all of you to go with the human sacrifice, heaven and Earth will Testify against you for your actions, You have the book therefore you have no excuse start with the front of the book. Not the add on to the Hebrew Bible you call it the New Testament, You stapled your stuff on the back of the Hebrew Bible. Remember anything True in the New Testament is not new, And anything new in the New Testament is not true. That is according to Torah. By the way Paul was from tartes And there where he grew up at they had a God named Attis you Ought to research Him. Kind to remind you of the statue of liberty If you look at his statues.

Great information, but I will make an argument against something you said about the "Jesus Myth Theory." And that is, that I can think of several valid connections between Jesus and the various pagan concepts. The fact that Jesus died at the age of 33, on Golgotha (the place of the skull), and was dead for 3 1/2 days (the sky became dark = he died at mid-day) AND the fact that John 3:14 says "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up." This connects to the Kundalini of the Hindu tradition too perfectly to be "just a coincidence." I'll explain: Moses made a bronze (copper + tin) serpent, and hung it on a pole. All who looked up at it were healed of their snake bites. In alchemical tradition: copper = feminine = negative = yin .... tin = masculine = positive = yang By mixing the two together, you get a "yin yang" of mixing male and female, positive and negative. It's also in the shape of a snake, AND it's also associated with the crucifixion. As for the kundalini, the word "kundalini" = "Kundal" (coiling / serpent) + "ini" (energy) = so it translates to "coiling energy" or "serpent energy" (note that it's called serpent energy because it coils like a snake, in other words, it is in the SHAPE of a snake.) the kundalini LIFTS UP the spine (33 vertebrae) to the "place of the skull," where it causes healing and rejuvenating effects It also coils up the spine 3 1/2 times, and has a positive and negative current (just like Moses' serpent) which flows like an electrical circuit. The 33 vertebrae of the Kundalini = the 33 years of Jesus' life when the kundalini (serpent energy) is LIFTED UP to the "place of the skull" = Golgotha the body is filled with energy (healing, rejuvenation, resurrection) As for the 2 thieves also crucified with Jesus, this corresponds to the Ida and Pingala (the positive / negative currents moving up / down the spine) One of the thieves goes UP to heaven, and the other goes DOWN to hell while the Ida goes UP the spine, and the other goes DOWN the spine, creating a continuous flow of energy. Not only that, but basically every religion on Earth, all have the same exact "Golden Rule." I don't think this is just coincidence. And I think the only way you could really dismiss this is if you didn't attempt to examine it at all.

There is no prove here just another claims..

Jesus didn't exist he live.

The Bible is neither the answer or the question, it is the claim. The Bible makes a claim. The work is to determine if the claims made in the Bible’s are accurate.

What a pile of crap. Richard Carrier has debunked all these arguments

Jesus is more likely a mythical character or the greatest magician who ever lived

God said that every word would be established by the word of 2 or more witnesses. The 1st witness is the Bible. The 2nd witness of Jesus is the Book of Mormon.

I still have my doubts. I wonder why this lecture is even necessary. Not only can you not prove the miracles and tons of ridiculous supernatural claims of the bible, you can’t prove that Jesus or any of the main characters were even historical figures. I remember watching The Bible series on the History Channel about a decade ago, and they presented it like it was actual history. But it’s clearly not. Sure, there are some historical figures and sites mentioned in the bible, but at best you can only label it historical fiction. I feel sorry for anyone taken in by religion. I’d love to see my dead relatives again as well, but I realize wishful thinking’s not gonna work.

In 600 BC a prophet whose name was Lehi was commanded by God to leave Jerusalem. He and his family brought with them scriptures written on brass plates about Adam and Eve our first parents. They wrote their experience and how God led them to ancient America and how Jesus himself visited these people and taught them His Doctrine. From generation to generation their record was handed down From 600 BC to 421AD The Last of Lehi's posterity whose name was Moroni buried their record and in 1820s He came back to earth and gave it to Joseph Smith and was translated in English by The Power of God