Atheist Problem: No Evidence for Jesus Christ?
Released: May 25, 2019
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Is there evidence for Jesus Christ? Many atheists and people on the internet today try to argue that there is "no evidence for Jesus Christ". But this is disingenuous. They ignore all the evidence and spout off their incorrect assumptions.
1. Christians were willing to die for their beliefs
Acts
Tacitus
Roman history from the first few centuries after Christ
Fox's Book of Martyrs http://www.ccel.org/f/foxe/martyrs/fox101.htm
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Church_Fathers
Timeline of Apostles' deaths
Judas 30 Suicide, hanged himself
James son of Zebedee 44 Beheaded by King Herod near Palestine/Judea
Phillip 54 Impaled by iron hooks in his ankles and hung upside down to die
Matthew 60 Arrested in Ethiopia; staked or impaled to the earth by spears and then beheaded
James the less 62 Death at the hands of Ananias, thrown 100 ft from the pinnacle of the temple repeatedly , then beaten to death with clubs
Paul 64 Beheaded
Simon Peter 67 Crucified upside down
Andrew 70 Crucifixion at the city of Patras in Achaea
Thomas 70 Stabbed with a spear and died in India
Bartholomew/Nathaniel 70 Martyred in Armenia, flayed to death with a whip
Matthias 70 Replaced Judas Iscariot, stoned and then beheaded
Thaddaeus/Judas/Jude 72 Crucified by the Magi in Persia
Simon the Zealot 74 Crucified
John 95 Natural death from old age.
2. Hundreds of early Christian writings
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/
acts of pilate
NT
matthew
mark
luke
john
james
jude
paul
peter
Ante-nicene authors/church fathers
--apostolic--
Papias
Clement of Rome
MATHETES
Polycarp
Ignatius
BARNABAS
Papias
Justin Martyr
Irenaeus
Hermas
--greek--
Clement of Alexandria
Origen
Irenaeus of Lyons
Athanasius of Alexandria
Cappadocian Fathers
John Chrysostom
--latin--
Tertullian
Cyprian
Ambrose
Jerome
Augustine
Gregory the Great
Archko Volume
http://www.thechristianidentityforum.net/downloads/Archko.pdf
http://www.bibleprobe.com/archko.htm
3. Christian cult offshoots - Gnosticism
4. Few Roman histories of Jesus Himself? why do you think?
The Romans wanted to minimize the effect of Jesus and His followers
They would not have wanted to record the Christian movement, or the works of Christ
However, Tacitus DOES record a small bit about Christ and the Christians