In the book, No Meek Messiah author Michael Paulkovich says he studied 126 historical texts by scholars who lived during and shortly after Jesus’ lifetime.
Paulkovich writes in the introduction to his book “When I consider those 126 writers, all of whom should have heard of Jesus but did not…I must conclude this ‘Jesus Christ’ is a mythical character. ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ was nothing more than urban (or desert) legend, likely an agglomeration of several evangelic and deluded rabbis who might have existed.”
Simon Edwards responded to this in a recent article in Christian Today stating that there are “very few serious historians who doubt Jesus’ existence and his remarkable effect on human history.”
Paulkovich may convince some that Jesus symbolises nothing more than “plenty of hoax and fraud perpetuated along the ages.” However, according to Edwards, the view that Jesus Christ never existed “is entirely against the weight of modern scholarly opinion.”
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