Are there historical records of Jesus Christ?

Answer 1

This is a complicated question. First, there is no evidence that Jesus left any writings, so the historical answer is "no." But that is not the entire answer. A theologian (a member of the clergy, for example) or a devoted believer would disagree. They might say "Yes, Jesus wrote the New Testament, because he lived it and he inspired his disciples to commit his words to writing." For these religious people, The Bible is literally true, and they also believe it contains prophecies and predictions. They would say that while Jesus may not have taken pen in hand to write the words, he wrote the New Testament in a spiritual sense, because the Gospel writers were inspired by the Holy Spirit (2 Timothy 3:16).

But for historians and skeptics, the answer is very different. Most scholars, including many who are Christian, agree that Jesus left no writings. And while he did influence the writers of the Gospels, who were his disciples, their gospels were not written down until between 45 and 150 years after Jesus had died. Therefore, it is difficult to say Jesus was personally involved in the writing of what became the New Testament.

To sum up, the answer to the question will depend on what your perspective is-- whether you accept the idea of Biblical fundamentalism (the New Testament is totally true and whatever is in its pages happened exactly that way) or whether you look at the New Testament from a historical viewpoint (the New Testament is a collection of writings by many different people, compiled at a certain point in time and intended to tell the story of the growth of Christianity) or whether you look at the New Testament from a skeptical perspective (the New Testament is a collection of inspirational stories, but contains little historical fact). Religious Christians believe Jesus had a hand in writing the New Testament. Skeptics doubt that he did, and many are certain he did not. And historians are mainly concerned with which gospels were written at which times, and what was going on in the society when each of the books of the New Testament was compiled.

Answer 2

Historians consider the Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke along with the letters of Paul to be the best historical records of Jesus

There are also mentions of Jesus in non-Christian writing. These are used in historical analyses of the existence of Jesus. Jesus is mentioned twice in the works of 1st-century Roman historian Josephus and once in the works of the 2nd-century Roman historian Tacitus.

Answer 3

No. There are no contemporary extra-biblical records of Jesus Christ. There are accounts written many decades after he is supposed to have lived, but these merely record the fact that Christians believed that he had lived. Biblical scholars believe there probably was a historical Jesus, but are increasingly of the view that the gospel accounts contain nothing historical about him.

Answer 4

If you meant something like a historical journal, then the answer is none. There's also no writings of Herod's massacre of the innocent, in Roman, Jewish or any other journals...

Answer 5

yes. it was tertulian