All that means is that a person named Jesus may have existed. But that has no bearing on events described in the Bible. It’s like saying you found a birth certificate for a Clark Kent from the 1930’s so that means Superman really existed.
Well if Superman modeled itself as a true story and the Clark Kent you found was the person who inspired the story then yeah you did. It’s not Clarks fault the author lied. Historians don’t only think ‘some dude name jesus exists’. They think that the specific Jesus depicted in the bible was based on a real person. You can be against religion and recognize a historical consensus.
The Jesus of history is not necessarily the same guy they wrote about. All that is known for sure is that someone named Jesus, who came from Nazareth, existed around the same time. Absolutely nothing else is linked to the name.
Also, everything that makes up the bible was written several years after that man’s life.
All that means is that a person named Jesus may have existed. But that has no bearing on events described in the Bible. It’s like saying you found a birth certificate for a Clark Kent from the 1930’s so that means Superman really existed.
Well if Superman modeled itself as a true story and the Clark Kent you found was the person who inspired the story then yeah you did. It’s not Clarks fault the author lied. Historians don’t only think ‘some dude name jesus exists’. They think that the specific Jesus depicted in the bible was based on a real person. You can be against religion and recognize a historical consensus.
The Jesus of history is not necessarily the same guy they wrote about. All that is known for sure is that someone named Jesus, who came from Nazareth, existed around the same time. Absolutely nothing else is linked to the name.
Also, everything that makes up the bible was written several years after that man’s life.
Historians also agree on his baptism and execution, not simply his birth.