BlowMe@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agoIs there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?message-squaremessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareIs there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?BlowMe@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square49fedilink
minus-squarefrankPodmore@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoNo. But physical proof is not the standard we use for determining someone’s historical existence.
minus-squareBlowMe@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoI’m pretty sure without the fossilised bones we would think dinosaurs weren’t a thing
minus-squarefrightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agoHistory is known by: Archæological evidence Oral interviews with eyewitnesses Texts Archæogenetics Historical linguistics Myth (euhemerism) Maybe some others I’m forgetting Dino-history isn’t comparable to tthe literate Roman period.
minus-squareBlowMe@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoYet we have dozens of proof about empires and people BEFORE Jesus. Like the Egyptians
minus-squareJimSamtanko@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoPeople. Not person. There is HUGE difference.
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoLiterary proof is, but also doesn’t exist for Jesus Christ. There’s a few mentions of just a “Jesus” but its not like no one else was named Jesus, and those don’t really make any mention of him being remarkable in any way. There’s just no evidence
No. But physical proof is not the standard we use for determining someone’s historical existence.
I’m pretty sure without the fossilised bones we would think dinosaurs weren’t a thing
History is known by:
Archæological evidence
Oral interviews with eyewitnesses
Texts
Archæogenetics
Historical linguistics
Myth (euhemerism)
Maybe some others I’m forgetting
Dino-history isn’t comparable to tthe literate Roman period.
Yet we have dozens of proof about empires and people BEFORE Jesus. Like the Egyptians
People. Not person. There is HUGE difference.
Literary proof is, but also doesn’t exist for Jesus Christ.
There’s a few mentions of just a “Jesus” but its not like no one else was named Jesus, and those don’t really make any mention of him being remarkable in any way.
There’s just no evidence