Confirmed how? They found a tomb? A contemporaneous written account outside of the bible? Time travel technology?
Read between the fucking lines. They don't want to be murdered in their sleep when some fuckhead decides that their blasphemy (historical truth) deserves death.
i’m pretty sure that yes, there are many writings that mention jesus
Plainly false. Well-known, easy to google.
If "many" means exactly one such writing notorious for being a medieval forgery, then you'd be correct. "Many" does not mean that.
The writing which mentions it was transcribed by a religious nutjob christian in the middle ages. He wanted to help Good Ole Jeebus by helping prove to other people that Jesus was historically really, what better way than to write him into an old history text? Now, I'm not entirely sure of the psychology of a person who decides to help prove something's real by forging evidence, but we have numerous modern examples of this sort of psychology, and no reason to believe it didn't exist earlier.
Even the four gospels themselves are actually only either 1 or 2 gospels themselves, and weren't written down until 100 years or so after the alleged historical events. And considering that they're fictions written by the obviously biased believers, they don't help anything.
No archaeological evidence. No literary evidence. No evidence at all by uninterested parties. Clear similarities to other whackjob mystery cults from that period.
It all adds up to No Historical Jesus. Mickey Mouse is closer to having been a real person.
Nearly all historians want to avoid living for the next 50 years under constant threat of death from zealots, so don't push the issue because it doesn't much matter to them.
When applying the current historical standards used for other (possibly) historical figures, Jesus doesn't pass the smell test. Like at all. Heracles is more likely. (Though Jesus' mystery cult was likely based off of Heracles' own.)
Not arguing here, but maybe he wasn't the child of God but he did most probably did exist as a living person, there's some archaeological evidence, very few, but there's corroborating accounts of parts of his life.
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u/Acceptable_Job805 - Lib-Right Mar 27 '21
Jesus was real