Do you think Christ is a historical person?

Question

the more I study about him, the less evidence I find for his existence. what do the jewish religious people think about him?

Answer 1

I believe Jesus was a Prophet, so yes I believe he was a historical person.

Answer 2

Christ is a myth. It was invented by someone after 280 years of his crucifixion.

You wonder how do people still believe in that myth after 2000 years?

Answer 3

ummmm dude he is a real person.

Answer 4

To answer the question.  He appears in history to anyone that studies history, therefore He is an historical figure.

Pilot's reports to the Emperor are just some proofs of Christ existence.

Whether you want to believe it or not.

Whether you are religious or not.

You don't have to believe in Him He believes in you.  Your choice.

Answer 5

I am a Catholic, so I believe he was real.  I try not to let it get to me.  We as Christians and Jews still worship the same God.  We believe he also came down in human form, and Jews don't.  That is ok.  I believe regardless, we should find common ground, and realize, christian or Jew, God will protect and save both if they support Gods People.

Answer 6

No, there is no historical evidence that he existed. Infact the Gospels are just a rip off of the life story of the Persian god Mithra, who the Roman legions were worshipping at the time.

Also the Gemara has a list of false messiahs and prophets, yet Jesus is not on it. If he existed he would have been on it.

Answer 7

then who's that guy that got nailed to a cross?

Btw, I don't know about Mohammad, but Moses was  definitely a PIMP, here's him instructing Jews to **** little girls:

(Judges 21:10-24 NLT)

>>     So they sent twelve thousand warriors to Jabesh-gilead with orders to

>> kill everyone there, including women and children.  "This is what you are

>> to do," they said. "Completely destroy all the males and every woman who

>> is not a virgin."  Among the residents of Jabesh-gilead they found four

>> hundred young virgins who had never slept with a man, and they brought

>> them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.

(Numbers 31:7-18 NLT)

>>     They attacked Midian just as the LORD had commanded Moses, and they

>> killed all the men. All five of the Midianite kings – Evi, Rekem, Zur,

>> Hur, and Reba – died in the battle.  They also killed Balaam son of Beor

>> with the sword.  Then the Israelite army captured the Midianite women and

>> children and seized their cattle and flocks and all their wealth as

>> plunder.  They burned all the towns and villages where the Midianites had

>> lived.  After they had gathered the plunder and captives, both people and

>> animals, they brought them all to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and to the

>> whole community of Israel, which was camped on the plains of Moab beside

>> the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

>>     Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the people went to

>> meet them outside the camp.  But Moses was furious with all the military

>> commanders who had returned from the battle. "Why have you let all the

>> women live?" he demanded.  "These are the very ones who followed Balaam's

>> advice and caused the people of Israel to rebel against the LORD at Mount

>> Peor.  They are the ones who caused the plague to strike the LORD's

>> people.  Now kill all the boys and all the women who have slept with a

>> man.  Only the young girls who are virgins may live; you may keep them for

>> yourselves.

(Deuteronomy 20:10-14)

>>      As you approach a town to attack it, first offer its people terms for

>> peace.  If they accept your terms and open the gates to you, then all the

>> people inside will serve you in forced labor.  But if they refuse to make

>> peace and prepare to fight, you must attack the town. When the LORD your

>> God hands it over to you, kill every man in the town.  But you may keep

>> for yourselves all the women, children, livestock, and other plunder.  You

>> may enjoy the spoils of your enemies that the LORD your God has given you.

Wow, what a great historic figure that Moses must be, he makes R Kelly look good

Answer 8

How can you deny Christ's existence? Are you a Jew?

Answer 9

I believe that he was  a real person who got on the Roman's nerves and got himself nailed to a cross as a result. The End. I do not believe that he was the son of God (if God has no physical form, how does he impregnate a woman to have a kid? And what type of God has marital relations with a married woman?!) or that he was a prophet or anything like that. Every story is based on SOME truth, no matter how little the truth has to play in the story. So it is most likely that Jesus was a real person.

Answer 10

Yes. To argue otherwise would deny the law of cause and effect. However,the pre-Christian figures - Moses,etc. - appear to be mythological. I will not approach the issue as to whether Jesus was divinely inspired since the question was in reference to historical existence as a person. Personally,as an agnostic I admire his teachings. As to the alleged figures who preceded him they thought,taught and practiced nothing but racism and genocide. Jesus obviously had very humanitarian teachings and he clearly did exist or the church could not have been founded by his disciples and it clearly was. I don't think they were disciples of a non-existant person.

Answer 11

probably a construct of several historical and fictional figures mixed with some greek/egyptian mythological figures.

Answer 12

of course he is....

The most important of them all....

ll you need is faith

:-)

Answer 13

yeah

Answer 14

i think Christ lived.

can't really say if he was the son of god..but ,you have to respect a person who had such an influence on so many lives to the point of people seeing him as god!

i think he was a great man, at least someone i would have liked to meet :)

Answer 15

Most serious scholars have concluded that "Jesus Christ" is a fictional character, though that in no way diminishes the power of "His" message.

There were many, many "mystics" touring the Middle East during that time performing "amazing feats" (there was no television!), and since Saul/Paul did not begin writing down the Jesus stories for some time, many different charismatic individuals may have contributed to the "Christ" character.  There is also some speculation that "Christianity" was invented as a way to levy a tithe on Gentiles, since they did not have obligations to the "church" the way Jews did.