{"id":7412,"date":"2016-08-16T23:33:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christexistence-of\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:33:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:33:54","slug":"christexistence-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christexistence-of\/","title":{"rendered":"CHRIST,\nEXISTENCE OF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>No serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non-historicity of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Otto Betz<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>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.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>F.F. Bruce<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Some writers may toy with the fancy of a \u201cChrist-myth,\u201d 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 \u201cChrist-myth\u201d theories.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>F.F. Bruce<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>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.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Herbert Butterfield<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>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.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Will Durant<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The origin of a great religious and moral reform is inexplicable without the personal existence of a great reformer.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>James Frazer, non-Christian writer<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The doubts which have been cast on the historical reality of Jesus are, in my judgment, unworthy of serious attention.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>James Frazer, non-Christian writer<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>Once disprove the historicity of Jesus Christ, and Christianity will collapse like a pack of cards.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Michael Green<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Theodore Parker<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>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.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Dr John Polkinghorne, theoretical physicist<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>The person of Christ is to me the greatest and surest of all facts.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Philip Schaff<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/christexistence-of\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CHRIST,<br \/>\nEXISTENCE OF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}