why do so many people believe in jesus ,even when theres no evidence to prove he existed?
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There is both Biblical and non Biblical evidence. Josephus was a Jewish historian of his day. Never a christian BTW. He gave an account of Jesus is his record. Biblically, David the King wrote a Psalm all about the crucifixion a method of execution not used until the Romans invented it some 500 years later. Proof there is not. If there were we would all be damned because proof makes faith of no effective and people as saved by the grace of God through faith. Without faith we die...   Jim
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You are welcome to believe what you like.\n\nBut do consider that it is probably a little more difficult, in general, for people to believe that a certain person is God than it is for them to believe that a certain person is homosexual.\n\nMoreover, Jesus didn't do any convincing. Jesus existed--and people came to understand that he was God. He never claimed he was God himself. So you would have to point to what he exactly said and did that was a persuasive tactic.
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there is no proof for any religion. However, Christianity provides evidence.\n\nEither Jesus was a liar, lunatic, legend, or Lord.\n\nPeople call him a great moral teacher, therefore, he wouldn't lie all of the time. He would have never made being the son of god the main point of his preachings. no one really thinks that because they call him a great teacher.\n\nA lunatic? when we look back, we don't see  the abnormalities that are found in lunatics. Instead of going around saying without thinking, he shows great composure while the pharisees confront him.\n\nLegend? If I wrote a book saying Ronald Reagan went around forgiving sins, you would never believe me. And the people wouldn't have believed the 12 disciples because Jesus was too recent. unless that actually happened.\n\nLord. alright then.\n\nLogically, Jesus had to be Lord. No proof, but other religions can't even do what I just did.\n\nAnd why do others believe other religions? Either it was forced on them by parents, or they don't want to follow the rules and instructions of the true, living God.
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Allowing that one does not accept the prophecy from the Old Testament as proof, many of his time refer to his actual existence.  Among these are Josephus, the Jewish Historian, Pliny the younger, Tacitus, Lucian and Hadrian.\nIn all fairness, none of these knew the historical Jesus.  In addition, none of the writers of the 4 gospels directly knew Jesus either.  Paul, however, relates the story of how Jesus appeared to him on the road to Damascus three times in the Book of Acts.  Despite several of these sources, in addition to the Babylonian Talmud, providing reasonable evidence to Jesus' existence, there is no intellectual exercise which will provide this, IMHO, nor do I think it should.  Each is only heuristic, rather than definitive, in its essence.\nNeither will the issue of faith alone provide any proof, as much as some would have it so; faith, by itself proves nothing except that one believes.  One may have faith alone in all sorts of absurdities.\n\nThe difficulty comes when we undeniably understand that we have both a material and spiritual component as human beings.  If we didn't, however, then this whole discussion would just be neurons bumping into one another and would be meaningless.\nThe spiritual component is very difficult to explain in any sense of materialism.  Philosophy treats any ventures into the realm of the spiritual as fantasy, at least that which cannot be verified.\nHowever, if faith in Jesus Christ created a real bond, then this bond would have to be created not only by the believer, but the respondent.  The respondent, in addition, would have to prove that he was God. The difficulty comes as to whether this is possible. How does one verify that God exists?\nBriefly, the Bible teaches us that each one of us who comes to Him must love Him because he loved us first.  In 2 Timothy 3:7, we read about those who seek to learn but never come to the truth.  Paul teaches us that we must love God if we want to know him. (Also see Ephesians 3:17; Philippians 1:9; Colossians 2:2; and also 1 John 2:5.) If we want knowledge without love, it isn’t enough.  We first see Him "as through a glass darkly"(1 Corinthians 13:12) but through our trials and efforts for Him, we come to see more clearly.  \nI suggest that the truth of Jesus lies not in any intellectual sense but in a personal relationship which must be individual: you can't believe because someone else believes and you can't discover it because someone else knows.  Intellectual truth leads to skepticism and denial.  While it is good to be skeptical of things, even Jesus' existence and association with the resurrection mysteries you cite, the real proof comes in the consistency of God's promise.  Be forewarned: new believers usually suffer persecutions.  In fact, persecutions are promised to all believers (2 Timothy 3:12.)  Not everyone wants you to believe in the truth of Jesus Christ.
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Historians now generally agree some dude called Jesus did once exist, he was born between 10BC and 5AD\nI dont believe in a god, and I dont believe in heaven, I believe that once you're ded you're dead!\nxx
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Jesus told us very clearly about God, and that he is REAL, many people question Jesus as the son of God, but all those miracles he performed were to prove it. so, as he is telling the truth, there is a God. You need faith.
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Well there is historical proof.  There is more historical evidence for the life and existence of Jesus than for Alexander the great, Julius Ceasar, Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates.  \nHowever Christianity stands or falls on the resurrection.  When the gospels were first written they were done in the lifetimes of those who were aware of the claims of Christ's resurrection, (the latest gospel was written about 90 AD).  The gospels as well as many of the epistles make the claim that Jesus rose from the dead, some of them even claim that He was seen alive by over 500 witnesses.  There are no refutations of these claims written during that same time period.  Even secular historians such as Josephus and Tacitus wrote about Christianity and Jesus, and neither of them refutes the claim of the resurrection.\nSo to put it in context there is more evidence for Christianity than for many of the court cases that are resolved today.\nHowever; as of yet, we still have no way to "Prove" the resurrection without a shadow of a doubt to skeptics and those who will not accept the historical record, thus Christianity becomes a matter of faith and a belief system, much as evolution, communism, socialism, or any other religion.  People believe it based on the evidence they are aware of, or they believe based on their choice.\nAn evolutionist is no different, they believe in a hypothosis because they do not want to accept another explanation of human life.  Evolution has not been completely "proved" it has a lot of holes and short commings, yet thousands continue to believe in it.  It's really no different than Christianity, or any other religion.  So to answer your question:  "Can Christianity be proved?"  The answer is yes... to some who look at the historical evidence, the archeaological evidence, the anthropological evidence, the evidence of changed lives, and other things.  The answer is also no... to those who believe that such findings are inconclusive and inadequate, and who do not want to believe in a Creator and Sovereign Judge of the universe.
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"There is actually quite a bit of written history from that time period that proves he did exist. But thanks for playing anyways."\n\nHAHAHAHAHAHA.... prove it. Show me one single piece of paper and I will believe you. The fact of the matter is, there was NO record of a historical jesus. In fact, St. Paul (who recorded the very first story of "Jesus") didnt mention anything about a virgin birth, miracles, or even this plane of exsistance. It was set in the same relm as Zeus, Hera, and other fictional characters. There are no writings from ANYONE who supposedly followed "jesus". If you know of any first hand evidence, I will gladly look at it and convert my faith if its true. So heres your big chance, all you good christians out there... In fact, Im gonna make it a new topic.
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Many do not believe that,because they don't believe in God. Many of them also say they know the Bible better than the believers,and thus they will also be held accountable for all the knowledge they have gotten from God's Word and still remained unbelievers.
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I think people believe in religion because it is much easier to follow along with everyone.  There is comfort and safety in numbers and if you just do what the nice man tells you to do, you'll get into heaven and won't have to do any real work to get there!  YAY!!!!  lol...really, don't people wonder about the fact that the huge miracles that you read about in the bible just don't seem to happen? it's because people forgot how to believe in themselves and in their own spirituality and began to believe in what they were told to believe.
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AMEN!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus is also my savior and my best friend. Hes the only one who gets me through each day. The guy who told you that...is sad. Who needs proof...its a little thing we call faith my friend. Those people will just learn the hard way. Pray for those people like that who need to be saved. Very good question..And i totally agree with you. God bless!!
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Yes, lots of people do. I was brought up to believe that Jesus was the son of God and that God himself was a different person, not a trinity. I'm not religious now, but when you've had the same thing told to you since you were a small child it's difficult to unbelieve.
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Why would I believe in Jesus "the supernatural son of a god"?  Perhaps a man named Jesus did exist and was executed, but that doesn't prove his divinity.\n\nWe "all" don't know Jesus is the son of God.  That presupposes the existence of God and atheists are WITHOUT belief in deities.  You can't "prove" something simply by saying "well of course you believe in this".\n\nYou didn't solve the problem, you just added another imaginary deity to it.
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because people in Jesus time did not believe he was divine.\n\nhis followers saw him as a human messiah and it was only long afterwords was he called the son of god
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Very correct in your conclusion.  Even those in Jesus time with all the proofs they had still did not believe in Him and a lot of those that did, did not want to admit it as they would be counted as His followers and maybe lose their important job.  Same today with all the evidence, many will not believe if a building were to fall on them to show that was truth.  The extra personal truth is that Jesus is a personal Saviour that knocks at each of our hearts and we have to but let Him in or not.
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There are a lot of voices vying for our attention, so why should anyone consider Jesus above, say, Muhammad or Confucius, Buddha, or Charles Taze Russell, or Joseph Smith? After all, don't all roads lead to Heaven? Aren't all religions basically the same? The truth is all religions do not lead to Heaven just as all roads do not lead to Indiana.\n\n \n\nJesus alone speaks with the authority of God because Jesus alone conquered death. Muhammad, Confucius, and the others molder in their graves to this very day, but Jesus, by His own power, walked away from the tomb three days after dying on a cruel Roman cross. Anyone with power over death deserves our attention. Anyone with power over death deserves to be heard.\n\n \n\nThe evidence supporting the resurrection of Jesus is overwhelming. First, there were over five hundred eye-witnesses of the risen Christ! That is a lot of eye-witnesses. Five hundred voices cannot be ignored. There is also the matter of the empty tomb; the enemies of Jesus could have easily stopped all talk of the resurrection by producing His dead, decaying body, but there was no dead body for them to produce! The tomb was empty! Could the disciples have stolen His body? Hardly. To prevent such a contingency, the tomb of Jesus had been heavily guarded by armed soldiers. Considering His closest followers had fled in fear at His arrest and crucifixion, it is most unlikely this ragtag band of frightened fishermen would have gone head to head against trained, professional soldiers. The simple fact is that the resurrection of Jesus cannot be explained away!
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I think it is because everyone is skeptical.  We need to see with our own eyes as prove that something exists.  Today, with the many modern techniques, there are many ways to claim to be something you aren't and people just don't believe anymore.