Originally posted by boombrshot
How can they prove someone that existed like 2000 years ago, i could start writing about a fictionary person and make life-like journals of this person and in the future it would be counted as real cause they got no idea.
There are many people from 2000 yrs ago or more whose existence is proved. There happens to be little contempary historical data on Christ. Most of the records in that area were destroyed by roman pogroms in Judea in the latter half of the 1st century.
But he is generally recogonized by secular historians to have lived in the first centuary based on non christen references made about him in writings from the 1st and 2nd centuries.
Do you deny the existance of Aristotle or some other ancient figures?
Many of the writings, used to verify their existance, were done more than 100 yrs after their deaths.
If you want to write fictionary stories of a modern messiah remember that you will need to convince a third of the world population to ascribe to your writings at the pain of death.
In a modern world of doubters I would challenge you to convince 1%.
If you can get 60 million followers over the next 300 yrs I would say you have another literary masterpiece.
And I doubt if Christ was the son of god,
And have many doubts about the truth or accuracy of the testements.
But I have little doubt that a man named Christ existed.