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Contemporary Evidence for Jesus

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Within Jesus's lifetime: - I expect that Jesus would have written or dictated thousands of documents, and insured their preservation. - I expect that Jesus's disciples would have written or dictated tens of thousands of documents. - I expect to find detailed eyewitness testimony of Jesus's ministry, miracles, death, and resurrection. - I expect to find independent attestation of the events in the gospels, such as the blackening of the Earth for 3 hours, from all over the world. - I expect thousands of depictions of Jesus: drawings, stone etchings, and busts. Instead today we find none of these things. There is not a single piece of contemporary evidence for Jesus: - There is no archaeological evidence of Jesus. - There are no surviving writings about Jesus that date to his lifetime. - There are no drawings of Jesus from his lifetime. Why is there no contemporary evidence for Jesus? I can think of possible explanations, but none are satisfactory: - This evidence at one point existed, but was destroyed or damaged. - There were no available raw materials. - Jesus wasn't noteworthy enough to merit documenting. - People believed the world would end soon and so there would be no point of documentation. Update: this question was closed for being off-topic. Why?
Asked by user1010110 (65 rep)
Sep 4, 2023, 07:40 PM
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