Can you guys provide some information regarding the evidence of Jesus's Existence

Dylan Taylor said:

Can you post some evidence regarding jesus's existence

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Yep.....it is called the Holy Bible....all the evidence in the world you need is right there.

Dylan Taylor said:

Can you post some evidence regarding jesus's existence

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By Josh McDowell | Evidence That Demands A Verdict

The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict: Evidence I & II

The New Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Fully Updated to Answer ...

Roman Historians Tacitus and Josephus

~Early Church Writings ~

Does Historical Evidence Prove that Jesus Lived? - Josh.org

You can find the secular references to Jesus in first century writings outside of the Bible by a simple google search. History.com has an article which sums that up well.

The prophecies about the coming Messiah in the Old Testament though are God's own provided evidence. He said the Messiah would be born in Bethlehem of Judah (Micah 5:2), would be despised and rejected of men and bruised/wounded/killed for our iniquities in making his soul an offering for sin (all in Isaiah chapter 53), and then you read Psalm 22 which obviously extended beyond David and describes a man suffering consistent with crucifixion followed afterwards by glory- and then you see in Zechariah 12:10 how when the Messiah returns in glory He will have been pierced previous to this. Then you read Daniel 9 and see Daniel's 70 weeks (commonly understood to be 70 periods of 7 seven years) it is clear that the Messiah would come on the scene and be crucified at the end of the 69th week (483 years from when these weeks took effect)- and when you understand the basic time frame of the beginning of these 7 weeks (as Daniel 9 shows, when the Persian Emperor was to command that Jerusalem be restored and built- and this happened in a way through both Ezra and Nehemiah who lived in the same general time frame but were sent to Jerusalem a few years apart), it is obvious that these weeks began in the late to mid 450s BC- and this means that the Messiah would be killed 483 years later in the late 20s or early 30s AD. And then you read Haggai 2 and Malachi 3 which both teach that the Messiah would come to the 2nd Temple- and this existed between the 5th century BC until the Romans destroyed it in AD 70. You also see in Malachi 3 how the Messiah would have a preaching ministry that would rebuke the corruption in Judaism and purify it by properly teaching the Law of God as God intended it to be understood when He gave it.

So you have the Scriptures before Jesus even came teaching that the Messiah would be a male born in Bethlehem-Judah who would live in the time of the 2nd Temple, have a preaching ministry that would rebuke Israel and challenge Israel to return to the true intents of the Law of God, that He would be despised and rejected of men, that He would be pierced and overall suffer a death consistent with crucifixion, enter into glory afterwards, and even that His death would be 483 years after the decree to rebuild Jerusalem and which would therefore need to be around approximately AD 30. And that is only a few of the obvious prophecies about the Christ/Messiah. And that is not even to mention all the types and shadow through the object lessons in the sacrifices in the Law of Moses and the stories of the righteous men in the Old Testament whose lives were in so many ways previews of Jesus' life.

It is no wonder then that Jesus could tell His disciples after His resurrection that they should have known He was going to die and rise again simply by what the Scriptures had already foretold.

Luke 24:25-27 "Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself."

Luke 24:44-48 "And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me. Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures, And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day: And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And ye are witnesses of these things."

God Himself orchestrated the circumstances and fulfilled what He had said would happen through the free-will choices of men to execute His plan of redemption. Acts 13:27-31 "For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre. But God raised him from the dead: And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people."

In light of all this, God gave enough internal evidence through many authors over spans of hundreds of years in His own inspired Word to verify the truth about Jesus and the salvation which He has provided to those who will bow before Him as their Lord and their God and follow Him by subjecting themselves to the very same instruction in the Scriptures which testify of Him. He is just as faithful to fulfill His promises to those who put their trust in Him now as He was to fulfill the prophecies about Christ which He had given hundreds of years before. The Apostle Peter could thus tell the Christians he ministered to: "Who (Jesus Christ) verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God." (1 Peter 1:20-21)

The Scriptures have also told us what we need to know about Christ's 2nd coming and heaven and hell- we know that He will be the judge of all men and that those who have responded right to His Word and followed him as their Lord will reign with Him at His return while those who are disobedient will be rejected from His kingdom as His enemies and suffer the just and horrific consequences that are appropriate for them. "In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe" (2 Thessalonians 1:8-10a)

Dylan Taylor said:

Can you post some evidence regarding jesus's existence

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For believers, maybe for some others,

FAITH IS THE EVIDENCE.........

Since Jesus dwells in me, by His Spirit I know He exists, perfectly.

Dylan Taylor said:

Can you post some evidence regarding jesus's existence

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There's more evidence for Jesus than there is for Julius Caesar, but nobody asks that question about him!

Francis Drake said:

There's more evidence for Jesus than there is for Julius Caesar, but nobody asks that question about him!

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Even mainstream historians agree that Jesus existed.....and that is saying something.

yeshuaslavejeff said:

For believers, maybe for some others,

FAITH IS THE EVIDENCE.........

Since Jesus dwells in me, by His Spirit I know He exists, perfectly.

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Amen!

civilwarbuff said:

Even mainstream historians agree that Jesus existed.....and that is saying something.

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Absolutely, but the silly notion "there's no proof that Jesus ever really existed" is a common ploy raised against new Christians or enquirers.
Asking the casters of doubt to provide proof that Caesar existed usually silences them.

Dylan Taylor said:

Can you post some evidence regarding jesus's existence

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Luke records:

Luk 1:1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

Luk 1:2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

Luk 1:3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

Luk 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

And so Luke wrote about the person, Jesus.

Act 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

Act 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

Act 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

These are two (Luke & Acts) historical documents that Jesus exists.

Matthew ten Verseight said:

Luke records:

Luk 1:1 Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,

Luk 1:2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

Luk 1:3 It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

Luk 1:4 That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

And so Luke wrote about the person, Jesus.

Act 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

Act 1:2 Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

Act 1:3 To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God:

These are two (Luke & Acts) historical documents that Jesus exists.

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From the world's point of view, given that God is the author of scripture, such proof doesn't count one jot.
If you asked a Muslim for proof of Mohammed's spiritual status, would you accept what the Koran said as proof?

Francis Drake said:

From the world's point of view, given that God is the author of scripture, such proof doesn't count one jot.
If you asked a Muslim for proof of Mohammed's spiritual status, would you accept what the Koran said as proof?

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How many people witnessed the alleged inspiration of the Quran? Muhammed was one witness.

redleghunter said:

How many people witnessed the alleged inspiration of the Quran? Muhammed was one witness.

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Irrelevant.
Reality is meaningless, its what people imagine to be reality that counts.

Francis Drake said:

Irrelevant.
Reality is meaningless, its what people imagine to be reality that counts.

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Facts always win over imagination.

redleghunter said:

Facts always win over imagination.

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You just don't get it do you.
Reality is what people choose to be reality.
Why on earth do you think people who hate God would believe scripture written by God, when they can believe a lie.

Francis Drake said:

You just don't get it do you.
Reality is what people choose to be reality.
Why on earth do you think people who hate God would believe scripture written by God, when they can believe a lie.

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Reality is a lie?

redleghunter said:

Reality is a lie?

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What?
I am baffled at how simple stuff like this sails over your head.

Of course reality is not a lie, but people believe lies all the time.

Francis Drake said:

What?
I am baffled at how simple stuff like this sails over your head.

Of course reality is not a lie, but people believe lies all the time.

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If imagination wins over fact, then what does that tell you?

redleghunter said:

If imagination wins over fact, then what does that tell you?

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It tells us how the world out there works!