Was Jesus a Real Person? Did Jesus Christ really exist, or is Christianity a legend built upon a fictitious character like Harry Potter? For nearly two thousand years most of our world has considered Jesus a real man who had exceptional character, leadership and power over nature. But today some are saying he never existed. The argument against Jesus’ existence, known as the Christ-myth theory, began seventeen centuries after Jesus is said to have walked the rocky hills of Judea. Ellen Johnson, president of American Atheists, summarizes the Christ-myth view on CNN TV Larry King Live: There is not one shred of secular evidence there ever was a Jesus Christ … Jesus is a compilation from other gods…who had the same origins, the same death as the mythological Jesus Christ. The stunned host, replied, “So you don’t believe there was a Jesus Christ?” Johnson fired back, “There was not…there is no secular evidence that Jesus Christ ever existed.” King immediately requested a commercial break. The international television audience was left wondering.[1] In his early years as an atheist Oxford literary scholar C. S. Lewis also considered Jesus a myth, thinking all religions were simply inventions.[2] Years later, Lewis was sitting by the fire in an Oxford dorm room with a friend he called “the hardest boiled atheist of all the atheists I ever knew.” Suddenly his friend blurted out, “The evidence for the historicity of the Gospels was really surprisingly good…It almost looks as if it had really happened once.”[3] Lewis was stunned. His friend’s remark that there was real evidence for Jesus prompted Lewis to investigate the truth for himself. He writes about his search for truth about Jesus in his classic book Mere Christianity. So, what evidence did Lewis’ friend discover for Jesus Christ? Click here to read page 2 of 10 about “Was Jesus Lagos : Eleven people lost their lives on Thursday when a chartered Associated Airlines flight crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, minutes after taking off from the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Nigerian authorities said. NIGERIA-LAGOS-PLANE-CRASH A rescue worker stands at the site of a plane crash in Lagos, Nigeria, on Oct. 3, 2013. The general manager of Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Oke Osayintolu, said 11 passengers aboard the aircraft died, while four were rescued and taken to the hospital, Xinhua reported. A statement from Nigeria’s aviation ministry said that 27 people were on board the crashed aircraft. “An Embraer aircraft operated by Associated Airlines with Reg No SCD 361 en route Akure from MMA, Lagos, crashed shortly after take-off at about 9.30 a.m. local time. The plane had 20 passengers and seven crew members on board,” the ministry said. The aircraft crashed in the fuel dump area of the airport and caught fire, Rask Fadipe, the director of Lagos State Fire Service, told Xinhua by phone. Fadipe said he deployed three fire fighting vehicles of 10,000 liters capacity each, which put out the fire. The aircraft broke into two with the front section burnt beyond recognition and the back area almost intact, the fire official said. The aircraft was carrying the body of a former governor of southwest Ondo state, Olusegun Agagu, before it crashed less than a minute after take-off from the local wing of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport. The former governor had died a week ago in Lagos after returning from a holiday. Rescue officials said the coffin had been brought out intact through the assistance of local welders. Meanwhile, the Accident Investigation Bureau said the two black boxes of the Associated Airlines plane have been recovered. Emmanuel Dialla, a senior engineer, said the two black boxes had been retrieved from the accident scene. Spokesperson for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) Ibrahim Farinloye had earlier confirmed to Xinhua that nine dead bodies were recovered from the accident scene, while six others survived the crash. The NEMA spokesperson said the cause of the crash was still under investigation by the authorities. Yarpp Get Latest News on : Nigeria Do you like this story? Do thumb up here. 1 Comment
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