Scripture
John 20:31
These are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
2 Tim. 3:14-15
But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed, knowing from whom you learned it, and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings which are able to instruct you for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Comment
Are we going to trust the word of 4 guys who apparently don’t even have last names, that there was this guy Jesus, after all weren’t those 4 guys “followers” of Jesus?
Groups of disciples on multiple occasions claimed to have seen the Risen Christ.
That is a fact.
There might be various explanations for this but you can’t just say that they didn’t claim to have seen the Risen Christ.
If you do that, you are writing off all of ancient history
You could also ask: “How do we know if Socrates existed?”
There is probably not a philosopher in the world who doubts the existence of Socrates.
Nobody doubts that there was a Socrates.
Yet how do we know there was a Socrates?
The truth of it is we have only three sources.
Plato, Xenophon, (who were disciples of Socrates) and a satire written by Aristophanes.
Do you hold that because the documents relating to Socrates often came after his death is the reason that we are not going to believe a word of it?
If you apply the standard used by atheists for determining the validity of historic Biblical writings, you may have to right off ALL of ancient history.
We would not believe anything we read.
We wouldn’t believe Caesar crossed the Rubicon.
We wouldn’t believe Alexander the Great conquered Egypt.
We wouldn’t believe that Socrates was walked the streets of Athens.
Essentially ancient history would be reduced to complete nonsense.
Mainstream historians are in no doubt that there was a Jesus.
Source: Dinesh D’Souza v Dan Barker and John Loftus debates
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