It's pretty relevant to Christians,I don't know why atheists go to such lengths to make such a point because the existence of Jesus the man is hardly proof of the whole of Christian doctrine.
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Mon 17 Oct 2011, 17:01,
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But Christians do spend a lot of time pinning their entire doctrineon the belief that a bloke name Jesus existed as if that was proof in of itself even though there is no hard evidence to say he did exists and respected historians do name a few other people who at the same time and the same region proclaimed themselves as The Messiah or Prophet of God.
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Mon 17 Oct 2011, 17:07,
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I don't much care for what this sort of Christian gets up to, to be honest,but respected historians generally accept the historical existence of Jesus as a person based on the evidence that exists. Yes there were other Messiah claimants, if anything these lend the story essential credibility.
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