Was Jesus ever here

Answer 1

A:Probably. Historians take the position that if a famous person was attested in ancient times, he probably did live, unless there are good reasons to believe otherwise. So, although Abraham is attested in The Bible, there are sufficiently good reasons to believe that he never really existed, whereas this is not the case with Jesus. This of course does not mean that historians accept that Jesus performed miracles.

Against this is that Paul, in his epistles, seems not to have realised that Jesus was a man who had lived in Palestine in the recent past. For him, Jesus often seems either to have been someone who must have lived at some time in the distant past or to have been purely spiritual.