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If you discovered sufficient evidence that Jesus of Nazareth existed, and it was demonstrated through documented evidence that He was and is all He claimed to be, would it change your life? You will get fascinating information about Jesus here, but you can experience God personally too as you open your heart as well as your mind to Him. Faith goes further than facts. There are around 2 billion people alive today who profess to be Christian. What was so special about one man's life that He has literally changed the world? Who exactly was the historical Jesus of Nazareth? Is there proof for Jesus being more than a mere mortal man? This website provides evidence not only to answer the question of whether Jesus of Nazareth existed, but whether He was all He claimed to be. It does not assume the role of convincing anyone through intellectual debate to pursue a personal faith. That happens through a spiritual revelation touching the heart. However, compelling evidence demands a response, a choice. Will we accept Jesus and His own words that He is our only way to God (John 14 6-7), gain eternal life, or reject the only possible means we could ever come into the presence of a Holy God who offers us Himself in love to us as Father, thereby being eternally separated from Him in Hell? Jesus of Nazareth is arguably the most influential person in history. His claims to be the Son of God, and His ministry to save His followers from eternal punishment by dying on a cross nearly 2000 years ago have unquestionably changed the world. If His claims are real, then He is the only way to Heaven, and to God the Father (John 14 verse 6), and He loves each one of us very deeply, pointing us to a loving Father. He is either a "liar, a lunatic, or Lord" as C.S. Lewis challenged us. Whatever our beliefs, the facts must be known. Do miracles happen today through Jesus? Is there an eternal Heaven, and an eternal Hell with no escape for all those who reject Jesus? Do we have hard objective historical evidence for Jesus' existence, and even His divinity as well? Do we have conclusive proof? Let's first examine two significant passages from a translation of writings by a highly respected Roman historian in the First Century. The links also provide some remarkable information. They include historical verification for Jesus, recent documented miracles from around the world, testimonies of those who claim to have visited Heaven and Hell, and extraordinary Bible Codes that go way beyond natural chance. This website should be updated regularly so please save it, come back frequently, and share its findings with others. Please feel free to contact me with your opinion, and join in the discussion below. Can there be anything more important than our eternal destiny? In Rome, in the year 93 AD, the Roman historian Flavius Josephus published his extensive history of the Jews. In discussing the period in which the Jews of Judaea were governed by the Roman procurator Pontius Pilate, writings attributed to Josephus include this revealing account that points not only to Jesus of Nazareth having lived, but that He was the Messiah, and rose from the dead:
" About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to
call him a man. For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when, upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him. And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared. " Some scholars maintain that the references to Jesus as Messiah in this passage are later interpolations by Christians, but just for a moment let's focus just on the historical evidence for the existence of Jesus. On that basis, the account by Josephus of the death of James, brother of Jesus, widely accepted even amongst the most independently minded scholars, is further confirmation that Jesus existed as a historical figure: " The younger Ananus, who had been appointed to the high priesthood, was rash in his temper and unusually daring. He followed the school of the Sadducees, who are indeed more heartless than any of the other Jews, as I have already explained, when they sit in judgment. Possessed of such a character, Ananus thought that he had a favorable opportunity because Festus was dead and Albinas was still on the way. And so he convened the judges of the Sanhedrin, and brought before them the brother of Jesus, the one called Christ, whose name was James, and certain others, and accusing them of having transgressed the law delivered them up to be stoned. "
Hebrews 11 verse 1 says "now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." (KJV). We cannot see oxygen, but we believe it's there to sustain us, and without it we would die. It is worth remembering that according to the Bible, while God is interested in our intellectual response to Him, He wants our hearts, and in John 3 Jesus tells us that The Holy Spirit draws people ultimately to faith. God works through faith because He wants us to have a relationship with Him through exercising the free will He gave us. Many people have had tangible physical experiences of God leading them to faith in Jesus Christ, others come to faith through what they would claim to be an inner witness of the Holy Spirit revealing Jesus to them. When we see hearts changed, love and forgiveness flowing, and the abundant life of God in someone's life, that can be more powerful than all the historical and miraculous evidence offered within this website.
What should we do with Jesus? Is it worth taking the risk of spending eternity in Hell by rejecting His salvation? In a world full of turmoil, Jesus Christ has the answers for this life and the next. Our best efforts will ultimately fail without him, and not one of us can claim to have the power over death in our own strength.
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Sony makes this statement about their own movie The Da Vinci Code: "the characters and incidents portrayed and the names herein are fictitious, and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely coincidental and unintentional".
1. It's not true that eighty Gospels were considered for the New Testament. This makes it seem like there was a contest which is a false assertion.
2. It is not true that Jesus was not considered divine until the Council of Nicea, that before that he was considered merely as "a mortal prophet." The overwhelming majority of Christians by the early fourth century acknowledged him as divine with some understanding he was so divine he wasn't even human!
3. Jesus' life was definitely not "recorded by thousands of followers across the land." He didn't even have thousands of followers initially.
4. Constantine did not commission a new Bible that omitted references to Jesus' human traits. He didn't commission a new Bible at all in fact. It is also important to note that the Bible does refer to the human experience of Jesus, but not anything sinful.
5. The Dead Sea Scrolls were not found in 1950 but 1947. The Nag Hammadi documents do not tell the Holy Grail story nor do they focus on Jesus' human traits, quite the reverse in fact.
6. The Q document is not a surviving source hid by the Vatican, nor is it a book allegedly written by Jesus himself. It's a hypothetical document that scholars have asserted as being available to Matthew and Luke, primarily a collection of Jesus' own words. It is not a secretive document.
7. The Dead Sea Scrolls were not among "the earliest Christian records". They are Jewish, with nothing Christian contained in them.
8. There is no apparent record of the lineage of Mary Magdalene; nothing connects her with the house of Benjamin. Even if she were, this wouldn't make her a descendant of David.
9. Mary Magdalene pregnant at the crucifixion? Again, that is a complete falsehood!
10. Jewish decorum did not forbid a Jewish man to be unmarried. In fact, most of the community behind the Dead Sea Scrolls were male, unmarried, and celibate.
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