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Evil Bible Home Page. Did Jesus exist? Amazingly, the question of an actual historical Jesus rarely confronts the religious believer. The power of faith has so forcefully driven the minds of most believers, and even apologetic scholars, that the question of reliable evidence gets obscured by tradition, religious subterfuge, and outrageous claims. The following gives a brief outlook about the claims of a historical Jesus and why the evidence the Christians present us cannot serve as justification for reliable evidence for a historical Jesus. ALL CLAIMS OF JESUS DERIVE FROM HEARSAY ACCOUNTS No one has the slightest physical evidence to support a historical Jesus; no artifacts, dwelling, works of carpentry, or self-written manuscripts. All claims about Jesus derive from writings of other people. There occurs no contemporary Roman record that shows Pontius Pilate executing a man named Jesus. "We have to accept somewhat looser standards.

The implications appear obvious. What Makes a Good Prophecy (and Why Bible Prophecies Aren’t) TC Notes - CSNTM. Manuscript Discoveries in Greece and Romania May–June 2010 Daniel B. Wallace Over the past few weeks, I have been doing a little blog-posting about manuscript discoveries in Greece and Romania by CSNTM. These include manuscripts that are known to the libraries but were not hitherto known to New Testament scholars because they had not yet received a Gregory-Aland number by the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster, Germany.

Some of the manuscripts that CSNTM ‘discovered’ will still not receive such a number for some time because we did not photograph these documents. But this summary is meant to give virtually all the details as we have them to date. Read more... The Comma Johanneum in an Overlooked Manuscript I am in Munich currently, examining Greek New Testament manuscripts at one of the world’s great libraries, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library). Read more... Uncatalogued MSS at Stephanou, Meteora Read more... Read more... New Lectionary Discovery? Codex Sinaiticus - About Codex Sinaiticus. Contradictions in the Bible » Curious to know why the Bible contains thousands of contradictions and what they tell us about the Bible's compositional history, authors, audiences, and the historical circumstances that produced it?Contradictions in the Bib.

What the Bible says about. Why I Think Jesus Didn't Exist: A Historian Explains the Evidence That Changed His Mind. Excavating The Empty Tomb Part 10. The City of David: Jesus' Jerusalem | History Documentary.