I would like to say first, Christianity is like many other religions, Christianity is a religion of faith. How can you challenge ones spiritual faith, and for those that don't go of faith and need more scientific proof that God exist 2Emc =∆ c2 proves not even science can discount God exist.
But the question at hand is not whether God exist, the question at hand is whether or not The Messiah, The Holy Spirit Jesus Christ ever exist.
The reason I bring up this matter, I like looking at documentary film online, and as I was looking, I came across a documentary called "THE GOD WHO WASN'T THERE" it's a documentary that explores the theory that Jesus Christ never existed. It's now on DVD.
http://www.thegodmovie.com/press.php
and also check
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73_IjNPmIEI
Now, I don't know what to make of this DVD because I haven't seen it. I do know this topic have been debated among many religionists and archaeologists & historians and theologians for centuries. I do know, many people feel that Homer's Iliiad is the best evidence, some say The Book of Mormon is the best evidence and there are many that challenge the Book of Mormon as MISTAKES, ERROR, AND FRAUD other proof is a Roman historians named Josephus who mentioned Jesus existence, but many feel Josephus references proved to have been a late Christian interpolation. Many feel jewish men that wrote the bible knew about the prophises of the jewish law and they all wanted out from under roman rule. Revolution in the late 18th century who first suggested that Jesus was a mythical character. 1 Bruno Bauer, a mid-19th century German theologian agreed. In part of his 4 volume set "Critique of the Gospels and History of Their Origin," he claimed that Jesus did not exist. A subsequent next major skeptic was the English theologian John M. Robertson who wrote two books in the very early 20th century. G.A. Wells, a former professor of German at the University of London was one of the most prominent. He wrote a series of five books on this topic, arguing that Paul and other 1st century Christian leaders believed that Jesus had lived in their distant past, perhaps in the 2nd or 3rd century BCE. Michael Martin discussed Jesus' existence in his 1991 book: "The case against Christianity," He is a professor of philosophy from Boston University who examined the major beliefs of Christianity. He concluded that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that Jesus existed. The Gospel of the Q: This is believed by many theologians to be a collection of sayings, "which included moral teachings, prophetic admonitions and controversy stories, plus a few miracles and anecdotes." These had been transmitted orally and are generally believed to have been first written down by his followers circa 50 CE, about two decades after his execution by the Roman occupying army. Many theologians believe that the Gospel of Q was used extensively by the authors of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. The latter gospels have many passages that are identical word-for-word -- or almost so. Yet there is no indication that the two authors communicated with each other or even knew each other. This provides a strong case for Q having existing as a written document. Theologians have attempted to reconstruct Q from the shared passages in Matthew and Luke.
Unfortunately, the gospel does not include any dates for Jesus' life, or any references that can be tied to known events. If Jesus had been executed circa 30 CE, then many who saw and heard him preach would still have been alive and could have verified that the gospel was accurate. But a case can be made that the gospel was assembled out of sayings from the 1st or 2nd century BCE. Paul wrote that he received personal revelations directly from Jesus, presumably in the form of visions. Paul mentioned that a fellow Christian, James, the brother of Jesus, headed up the Jerusalem Church. That would be a strong indicator that Jesus had lived in the early 1st century CE. The Gnostics: The early Christian movement was composed of Gnostic Christians, Jewish Christians, and Pauline Christians. Gnostics in particular maintained that God could never take human form. Some denied Jesus' existence as a historical person. Cornelius Tacitus: He was a Roman historian who lived from 55 to 120 CE and wrote a book Annals, circa 112 CE. McDowell and Stewart accept his writings as a strong indicator of Jesus' existence in the early 1st century CE. Some theologians and historians believe that many of the details of Jesus' life were "borrowed" from a competing, contemporary religion, Mithraism. The religion was founded in Persia before the birth of Christianity. Mithra was a fictional character who was worshipped as a Good Shepherd, the Way, the Truth and the Light, the Redeemer, the Savior, and the Messiah. Christian and non-Christian historians of Jesus’ day testified to his existence and miracles. Among those who testified are: Roman historians Cornelius Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny the Younger, Syrian Mara bar Serapion and Josephus Flavius, the leading Jewish historian of that time, who said in his book Jewish Antiquities:
“Now, there was about this time, Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works - a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principle men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at first did not forsake him, for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and 10,000 other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.”
In 06' an Italian judge ordered a priest to appear in court to prove that Jesus Christ existed.
Heres the article:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/a... .
Yours truly,
Anthony Smith
P.S.
Now, ask yourself do your spiritual faith exist?
Do you have faith in the Holy Spirit Jesus Christ?
If your faith in Christ exist, than Christ exist, that's all the proof you need, your proof is a mathematic formula equation that will never have to be answered because your soul is the solution.