Is there proof that Jesus existed if so how?

Answer 1

Yes, there are documentary proofs in the Buddhist monastries in Tibet and Ladakh ( norther India).

The Bible said nothing about the life of Jesus between his age of 14 to 29. during that time Jesus went to Tibet and Northern India and studied. There are documents in those monastries about him.

Answer 2

Proof of the existence of God and Jesus can only be traced to the Bible and the existence of non-terrestrial bodies.

Another View:

There are many proofs of the existence of God, including His actually walking and talking to various people. Paul puts it simply as:

God's Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Answer 3

Yes, indeed, there is proof that Our Blessed Lord existed, and, as a matter of fact, still exists. The fact that He is outside of time - in eternity - and exists as we speak is for than positive proof that He existed in the past.

Most people, like me, know that Our Blessed Lord exists because we know Him personally. We talk with Him daily, we adore Him in Church, we receive favors and such from Him constantly; and most of the people that I know also have a personal relationship with Him.

This would sort of be akin to asking me how I know my mother existed, if you see what I mean? I know my mother, I have a relationship with her, and have had a relationship with her for over 60 years. Ditto with Our Blessed Lord.

Answer 4

If you are looking for external writings that note the life of Jesus then there are ten known non-Christian sources and about four times as many Christian sources which include the Gospels. The 10 are: Josephus, the Jewish historian for the Roman Government; Tacitus, the Roman historian; Pliny the Younger a Roman politician; Phlegon, a freed slave who wrote histories; Thallus, a first century historian; Seutonius, a Roman historian; Lucian of Samosata, a Greek satirist; Celsus, a Roman philosopher; Mara Bar-Serapion, a private citizen who wrote to his son; and lastly, the Jewish Talmud. All of these writings are within a 150 year timeframe of the life and times of Jesus.

Interestingly, compare these 10 writings to only the 9 non-Christian writings (during same 150 year timeframe) for Tiberius Caesar, the Roman emperor at the time of Jesus' ministry. Strange how few doubt his existence or writings.

Modern writers Norman Geisler and Frank Turek in their 2004 book "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist', summarizes the 10 non-Christian writers noted above (some very anti-Christian) as follows: 'They attest that Jesus lived during the time of Tiberius Caesar, lived a virtuous life, was a wonder-worker, had a brother named James, was acclaimed to be the Messiah and was crucified under Pontius Pilate on the eve of the Jewish Passover, accompanied by darkness and earthquake...The further affirm that His disciples believed He rose from the dead, were willing to die for their belief, spread Christianity rapidly as far as Rome and denied the Roman gods, instead worshipping Jesus as God ' (p. 223).

The above sounds like it could be a summary of the Gospels, Acts and some of the other books in the New Testament.

Answer 5

Proof that Jesus of Nazareth really existed and lived during the first thirty or so years of the first century, would have to come either from archaeological evidence or from contemporary authors who mention having met him or of knowing someone reliable who has met him. Neither form of evidence exists.

Writing decades later, Josephus mentions Jesus as someone whom the Christians of his time believed to have lived in the recent past, but he says nothing to confirm the truth of that belief. Some second-century authors certainly talk of the Christian religion, with Tacitus actually mentioning the crucifixion under Pontius Pilate. However, Tacitus was not citing Roman records or other independent source, merely relying on the firm belief of Christians he had met.

A contemporary of Jesus is Philo of Alexandria, who wrote of every Jewish movement he knew about but never mentions Jesus. Paul should be another contemporary, who certainly preached the Christian faith. Yet what we know of what Paul taught differs in some ways from the gospel accounts, and he seems unaware that Jesus had lived and died in Palestine in the recent past.

There probably was a person called Jesus, who taught high moral values, but whether he lived in Palestine at the start of the first century or somewhat earlier is a matter being debated by some. It is also being debated whether Jesus ever lived in Nazareth. The first gospel to be written never says Jesus lived in Nazareth, but only calls him a Nazarene (which most Bibles translate into English as "Jesus of Nazareth", as used in the later gospels).

Answer 6

Historically Jesus has been proven to exist on earth for a short period (approx. 33 years).

Answer 7

Yes. There are historians outside of the New Testament which wrote of Him. One of them was the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.