Did Jesus Really Exist?

by Derek Murphy

The Debate over the Historical Jesus is Real, and it Matters.
Did Jesus really exist as a historical person? Millions of people vigorously affirm that he did – and yet the “historical Jesus” of biblical scholars is not the Son of God proclaimed by Christian Faith. The historical Jesus who may have existed is not the Jesus Christ that everybody knows about, the one deeply imbedded in Western culture. He is not the Jesus who performed miracles and healed the sick; he is not the dying and resurrecting Jesus, the son of God. Mythicists point out that all of those ideas came from pre-existing and co-existing pagan and Jewish stories and were later grafted into the story, and there are few biblical scholars who would disagree with them. When Christians proclaim that Jesus was a historical person, they are also claiming that most of these miraculous stories are likewise historically true – and that they were the signs and proof that he was the Son of God. This is the Jesus that mythicists strive to prove didn’t really exist. The only question that remains is this: if not the mythological figure of the gospels, who was Jesus really?

174 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 14, 2012

About the author

I wrote my MA thesis on Harry Potter and my PhD thesis on Paradise Lost. Now I write YA fantasy novels and design book covers. I blog about self-publishing, book design and book marketing, and was featured in CNN for renting castles.

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