CHRIST,
EXISTENCE OF

No serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non-historicity of Jesus.

Otto Betz

Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the witness of Christian writings, the historical character of Jesus himself.

F.F. Bruce

Some writers may toy with the fancy of a “Christ-myth,” but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the “Christ-myth” theories.

F.F. Bruce

It would be a dangerous error to imagine that the characteristics of an historical religion would be maintained if the Christ of the theologians were divorced from the Jesus of history.

Herbert Butterfield

That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic, and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.

Will Durant

The origin of a great religious and moral reform is inexplicable without the personal existence of a great reformer.

James Frazer, non-Christian writer

The doubts which have been cast on the historical reality of Jesus are, in my judgment, unworthy of serious attention.

James Frazer, non-Christian writer

Once disprove the historicity of Jesus Christ, and Christianity will collapse like a pack of cards.

Michael Green

It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.

Theodore Parker

The reason why I take my stand within the Christian community lies in certain events which took place in Palestine nearly two thousand years ago.

Dr John Polkinghorne, theoretical physicist

The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.

Philip Schaff