Discussion»Questions»Religion and Spirituality» Don't you have anything better to do than to cultivate a lame and wordy affinity to a false construct of Jesus Christ of which there is not?
Outside of the Bible, there's Josephus but very little else. Julius Caesar has physical evidence, dozens of coins stamped with his likeness still exist.
While the stories about Him do be required to be taken largely on faith, He did exist. "Antiquities of the Jews" has been heavily and at times clumsily redacted by generations of Christian scribes, but removing all references to the "Galilean healer" makes an unreadable mess of Josephus' account of the fourth decade before the destruction of the Temple - an historically verifiable event with a known date. Essene mystics weren't exactly rare in the first century CE either. Yeshua was one of several.
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