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.
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