responding to a false entry from an atheist author; Finally, here is a selection of quotes to show that there is no scholarly dispute about the existence of Jesus: 1. “Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed.” Graham Stanton, The Gospels and Jesus (Oxford University Press, 1989) 145. 2. “That he was crucified is as sure as anything historical can ever be, since both Josephus and Tacitus...agree with the Christian accounts on at least that basic fact.” John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (HarperOne 1995). p. 145. 3. “Biblical scholars and classical historians now regard it [theories of the nonexistence of Jesus] as effectively refuted.” Robert E. Van Voorst, Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence (Eerdmans Publishing, 2000) p. 16. 4. [the theories of non-existence of Jesus are] “a thoroughly dead thesis.” James D. G. Dunn, “Paul’s understanding of the death of Jesus” in Sacrifice and Redemption ed. S. W. Sykes (Cambridge University Press: 2007) 35-36. 5.“Combining the evidence of Thallus, Pliny, Tacitus, and Suetonious one can accumulate enough data to refute the fanciful notion that Jesus never existed without even appealing to the testimony of Jewish or Christian sources.” Craig Blomberg, The Historical Reliability of the Gospels (Downers Grove: IVP, 1987) p. 197 The Christian has every good reason to comfortably rest within the academic mainstream that Jesus really existed. Those who deny this intellectually marginalize themselves to the crackpot realm.
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