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Did Jesus really exist?
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Did Jesus really exist?
Jesus is said to have been born in Bethlehem in the year
zero and crucified around 33 AD. During this time, there are many stories in
the Bible about him having performed various miracles and spread his
teachings.
Why do we find references to these things only in the
Bible? Today, when we make historical-scientific statements, they are
generally accepted only if they are confirmed by several different,
independent sources. Why shouldn’t we do the same in this case?
What other sources confirm the existence of Jesus?
Flavius Josephus, a Jewish scholar who translated the 5 books of Moses and
other Hebrew writings fairly freely into Latin and then wrote down the
history of the Jewish people on his own to make them understandable to his
fellow Romans, was sharply condemned by a bishop in the 4th century, because
he had not mentioned Jesus. Another bishop fifty years later praised Josephus
for having mentioned Jesus. Probably the part about Jesus was later simply
inserted in his book.
Let's take just one example to get closer to it. A crowd
of two or three thousand Jews was marching to the Jordan, because some
self-proclaimed Messiah had promised to share the waters of the Jordan, as
God had done with the Red Sea at the time of Moses. Immediately, a Roman
legion was at hand, which dissolved this march. Now, when Jesus on a donkey
entered Jerusalem and the whole city gathered in the streets to greet him,
spreading palm leaves like a rug on his way, at least one legion would have
been instantly deployed to dissolve it, as well as other congregations
described in the Bible, because the Romans were always afraid of an uprising
in the occupied territories.
From a historical point of view, the existence of Jesus
mentioned in the Bible seems extremely doubtful.
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Freitag, 17. Juli 2020
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