The core value of Christianity is the Love of God and the Love among people. Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection are the pillars of Christianity. As Christian, I firmly believe in the Bible and the Teaching of Jesus Christ through His Church. Have I done any search for historical proof for Jesus existence? I have not searched the history books by the Roman historians, the Jewish philosphers and the Egyptian scholars and the Greek great thinkers. People can find plenty of publications by scholars and historians of different centuries and jurisdictions studying, proving or disproving the Teachings of Jesus. It is estimated that the world's largest library cannot hold all these publications. My friends, let me tell you my belief is not based on these information. It is founded simply on my love and gratitude for the One who Godly Creates, Cares and Maintains all His Creations unconditionally.
Understandably, people outside the Church view the whole thing from different points and ask questions soliciting historical records and proof for the Life, Death and Resurrection pertaining to Jesus. For this, I search the internet for answers to the highlighted key questions as follows:
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Understandably, people outside the Church view the whole thing from different points and ask questions soliciting historical records and proof for the Life, Death and Resurrection pertaining to Jesus. For this, I search the internet for answers to the highlighted key questions as follows: Abstracts:
Any Historical Proof that Jesus existed?
The ancient historical record provides examples of writers, philosophers and historians who lived during or not long after the time Jesus is believed to have lived and who testify to the fact that he was a real person. We will look at what some of these people have said.
Cornelius Tacitus
Tacitus lived from A.D. 55 to A.D. 120. He was a Roman historian and has been described as the greatest historian of Rome, noted for his integrity and moral uprightness. His most famous works are the Annals and the Histories. The Annals relate the historical narrative from Augustus' death in A.D.14 to Nero's death in A.D. 68. The Histories begin their narrative after Nero's death and finish with Domitian's death in A.D. 96. In his section describing Nero's decision to blame the fire of Rome on the Christians, Tacitus affirms that the founder of Christianity, a man he calls Chrestus (a common misspelling of Christ, which was Jesus' surname), was executed by Pilate, the procurator of Judea during the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberias. Tacitus was hostile to Christianity because in the same paragraph he describes Christus' or Christ's death, he describes Christianity as a pernicious superstition. It would have therefore been in his interests to declare that Jesus had never existed, but he did not, and perhaps he did not because he could not without betraying the historical record.
Lucian of Samosata
Lucian was a Greek satirist of the latter half of the second century. He therefore lived within two hundred years of Jesus. Lucian was hostile to Christianity and openly mocked it. He particularly objected to the fact that Christians worshipped a man. He does not mention Jesus' name, but the reference to the man Christians worship is a reference to Jesus.
Jesus Resurrect from the Dead?
The belief in the resurrection of Jesus is fundamental to Christianity because if Jesus did not rise from the dead, He was not God, but only a man. To claim that someone would rise from the dead sounds outrageous and impossible, therefore, a number of theories have been proposed to explain away Jesus' resurrection.
The swoon theory
This view claims that Jesus did not die on the cross, but swooned or feinted, was believed to be dead by the medically primitive society he lived in and was buried, only to revive later and re-appear to his disciples.
However, this theory is inadequate for a number of reasons. First, why is there no reference in the ancient anti-Christian literature of Jesus only swooning? All the enemies of Christianity at least agreed he had died. Second, Jesus before He was even nailed on the cross, had already suffered a night without sleep during his night time trials, the emotional trauma of seeing his followers flee from Him, the terrible Roman scourging that normally killed its victims, the agonising journey to the place of the execution with the heavy cross on his back and the torture of the crucifixion itself. It seems improbable that someone could survive this, then lie in a tomb without medical treatment and then revive! Finally, according to the Gospel of John, one of the Roman soldiers, to ensure that Jesus was dead before He was removed form the cross, plunged a spear into Jesus' side and from the wound poured blood and water. This is a sign that clotting had occurred in the major arteries of Jesus' body, which is a clear indication that death had occurred.
The theft theory
This theory declares that in order to ensure that it had appeared that Jesus had fulfilled His own prophecy that He would come back from the dead, His disciples stole His body.
This theory is also inadequate. It would have been in the interests of the religious authorities to ensure Jesus remained in the tomb, hence the Gospels record that a detachment of Roman sentries kept watch at the tomb. The disciples would not have had access therefore to the tomb. According to Roman military law, any sentry found asleep on duty was executed. These soldiers would dare not have fallen asleep whilst on duty, and even if they had, the sound of the large rock over the tomb's entrance being moved would surely have woken them! If the disciples did somehow procure Jesus' body, why would they proclaim as they did later that Jesus had risen from the dead, knowing full well he was dead? Why did they later give their lives for their conviction that He was alive when they knew He was dead?
The Romans would not have moved the body. It was in their interests for Jesus to be dead and buried so that they would not have to deal with any more disputes among the Jews over Jesus.
If the religious authorities had taken Jesus' body, why did they not produce the remains of His body as proof that the disciples' preaching of the resurrection was untrue?
The hallucination theory
According to this theory, People hallucinated Jesus' appearance from the dead. If this is true, then Christianity is founded on the testimony of a pathological experience of certain persons.
Of course, this theory is not true. Generally, only certain types of people are prone to hallucination and these are people who are emotionally nervous and very imaginative. The people who claimed to have seen Jesus included the following: Mary Magdalene, Jesus' group of female followers, Peter and the other disciples and a pair of men travelling to Emmaus. Is it possible for such a diverse group to all have the character profile that would make them hallucinate? Were they all unstable?
Moreover, hallucinations are known to psychiatrists as being highly individualistic. It is not possible for all these people to have seen the same hallucination and at the same time when Jesus appeared to them in groups.
Conclusion
If there is no known adequate theory to explain away Jesus' empty tomb, then we must conclude that Jesus did rise from the dead. The fact that His disciples were prepared to risk their lives to maintain their claim that He was alive again is surely 'food for thought'.
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