apologetic external evidence for the existence of jesus

FACT OR FICTION(A SEARCH FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS)

FACT OR FICTION(A SEARCH FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS)

JESUS THE MESSIAH

Dean Holder www.zebachsda.com

JESUS THE MESSIAH

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•WHOM DO MEN SAY THAT I THE SON OF MAN AM

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Evidence for the Historical Jesus by Josh McDowell, Bill Wilson pg.13

THE JESUS WHO CAME FORWARD PUBLICLY AS THE MESSIAH, WHO PREACHED THE ETHIC OF THE

KINGDOM OF GOD, WHO FOUNDED THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ON EARTH, AND DIED TO GIVE

HIS WORK IT’S FINAL CONSECRATION, NEVER HAD ANY EXISTENCE. HE IS A FIGURE DESIGNED BY

RATIONALISM, ENDOWED WITH LIFE BY LIBERALISM, AND CLOTHED BY MODERN THEOLOGY IN AN

HISTORICAL GAB.

Evidence for the Historical Jesus by Josh McDowell, Bill Wilson pg.13

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IF A. SCHWEITZER HAD PRONOUNCED THE ORBITUARY ON THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS, BULTMANN COULD

BE SAID TO HAVE LAID IT’S TOMBSTONE IN PLACE. THE GENERAL EFFECT OF HIS WORK WAS TO CLAIM THAT THE QUEST

FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS WAS IMPOSSIBLE. BULTMANN TOOK THE FURTHER STEP OF DECLARING THAT THE QUEST WAS

ILLEGITIMATE AND UNNECESSARY.

Evidence for the Historical Jesus by Josh McDowell, Bill Wilson pg.14

Rudolph Bultmann

Evidence for the Historical Jesus by Josh McDowell, Bill Wilson pg.15

Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Bart D. Ehrman

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THE FIRSTBEGOTTEN

THE WORD WAS GOD

THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH

THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER

FOR HE WAS BEFORE ME

THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON

THOU ART THE CHRIST, THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD

HOW THAT HE MUST GO UNTO JERUSALEM, AND SUFFER MANY THINGS OF THE ELDERS AND CHIEF PRIESTS AND SCRIBES, AND BE KILLED AND BE RAISED AGAIN

THE THIRD DAY.

BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS I AM

President Hinkley, the prophet and revelator of the Mormon church

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JESUS WAS NEITHER A SAVIOUR, NOR A REDEEMER

NOR THE “ONLY SON OF GOD” BUT SIMPLY “A GOOD AND RIGHTEOUS MAN ONLY” WHO THEY

BELIEVED TAUGHT AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE

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”JESUS WAS NEITHER A SAVIOUR, NOR A REDEEMER NOR THE “ONLY SON OF GOD” BUT SIMPLY “A GOODAND RIGHTEOUS MAN ONLY” WHO THEY BELIEVED TAUGHT AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE”.

THIS STATEMENT CONTRADICTS THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS HIMSELF AS GIVEN IN THE GOSPELS

JOHN 1:29-36

29 THE NEXT DAY JOHN SEETH JESUS COMING UNTO HIM, AND SAITH, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD, WHICH TAKETH AWAYTHE SIN OF THE WORLD.

30 THIS IS HE OF WHOM I SAID, AFTER ME COMETH A MAN WHICH IS PREFERRED BEFORE ME: FOR HE WAS BEFORE ME.

31 AND I KNEW HIM NOT: BUT THAT HE SHOULD BE MADE MANIFEST TO ISRAEL, THEREFORE AM I COME BAPTIZING WITHWATER.

32 AND JOHN BARE RECORD, SAYING, I SAW THE SPIRIT DESCENDING FROM HEAVEN LIKE A DOVE, AND IT ABODE UPONHIM.

33 AND I KNEW HIM NOT: BUT HE THAT SENT ME TO BAPTIZE WITH WATER, THE SAME SAID UNTO ME, UPON WHOM THOUSHALT SEE THE SPIRIT DESCENDING, AND REMAINING ON HIM, THE SAME IS HE WHICH BAPTIZETH WITH THE HOLY GHOST.

34 AND I SAW, AND BARE RECORD THAT THIS IS THE SON OF GOD. (NOT ‘A’ BUT ‘THE’ SON OF GOD)

35 AGAIN THE NEXT DAY AFTER JOHN STOOD, AND TWO OF HIS DISCIPLES;

36 AND LOOKING UPON JESUS AS HE WALKED, HE SAITH, BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD!

KJV

[ See Scriptural refutation of Islam for more scripture support ]

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LETTER TRAJAN

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Evidence for the Historical Jesus by Josh McDowell, Bill Wilson pg.45