Intro to Apologetics Series: Did Jesus even exist?
To continue with my introductory apologetics series, I wanted to take a step back from the scriptures and Jesus and look at a matter of history. There is a staunch crowd that one can find on the internet that will claim that Christians are crazy for believing in Jesus because Jesus never existed at all. That Jesus is merely a myth like Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. Is this the case? Have roughly a third of the world deluded ourselves into believing in a myth? I think we will find that historical records, including those outside of the Bible, will side with the Christian. There is a secondary issue, or separate issue entirely depending on who you are talking to, that Jesus did exist, but he wasn’t the son of God, and that the council of Nicea was responsible for the deification of Jesus. What I want to do today is take a brief look at the extra biblical sources for the existence of Jesus and the writings of church fathers to show...