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Historical Jesus
Historical Jesus - did Jesus really live, or was he just a myth?

Timeline: Jesus' Genealogy
A timeline of the different genealogies attributed to Jesus, demonstrating the discrepancies.

Christ a Fiction
"...I think there are four senses in which Jesus Christ may be said to be a "fiction.""

The Date of the Nativity in Luke
It is indisputable that Luke dates the birth of Jesus to 6 A.D. It is also indisputable that Matthew dates the birth of Jesus before 4 B.C., perhaps around 6 B.C. This is an irreconcilable contradiction.

Did Jesus Christ Really Live?
Was he real or not? Evidence is lacking.

"Evidence" for Jesus: Reliable?
"In the fifth chapter of Evidence That Demands a Verdict entitled, "Jesus--A Man of History," Josh McDowell lists a series of "sources for the historicity of Jesus."" - Jeffery Jay Lowder rebuts.

Historical Jesus?
"Did a historical Jesus actually exist? All accounts of him come from hearsay writings and no one during the time of his alleged life ever mention him. "

Historicity of Jesus FAQ
Great basic introduction to all the commonly claimed evidence of Jesus and good objections.

Honest to Jesus
"The more Funk attributes to his preaching hero, the more it baffles that the man was so thoroughly cast aside by all the early Christians who left a record of the new faith."

Is Jesus a Counterfeit?
"Christians dismiss the tales of pagan saviors as mythology while adamantly insisting that it is rational to believe that the story of Jesus's virgin birth and resurrection is factual." Farell Till argues that this is unreasonable.

Is there a 1st century papyrus of the gospel text?
A book review of The Jesus Papyrus addresses this claim in detail, finding that it is groundless.

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