Can anyone name a single verifiable fact about Jesus?
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Answer 1
Yes, the Bible is absolutely full of facts about Jesus. One example: Jesus lived. Another: Jesus was crucified. Another: Jesus healed the sick. Another: Jesus had numerous disciples and followers, including 12 Apostles.
But the fact that you think that it would be difficult for answerers to come up with even one single verifiable FACT about Jesus indicates that you think normal rules by which we establish historical fact must not apply. You apparently don’t consider any of the New Testament to have a basis in fact.
In fact, it’s curious how great a divide exists between the enormous body of scholarship established by believing scholars over the years and the relatively scant body of scholarship established in recent years by non-believing scholars. Most of the non-believing scholarship posits alternate possibilities that aren’t really credible except to other non-believers - such as the idea that the New Testament was created by Romans after the fact. That’s just a risible hypothesis that requires greater incredulity to believe than accepting the FACT of the resurrection as documented in so many different sources. Don’t forget that the New Testament is a collection of mostly independent narratives, epistles, and stories that were, at some unknown point, committed to writing. The FACT that they are all so consistent, while still differing in detail, style, and focus, is what is most remarkable of all, and strong evidence of their veracity.
In the establishment of normal historical FACT, the weight of evidence provided by the Gospels, corroborated by the epistles and other writings of the New Testament, would be considered overwhelming and compelling evidence of countless FACTS about Jesus Christ.
However, because those FACTS are so extraordinary and compel anyone who accepts them as FACT to believe certain things that require faith to accept, it is human nature to take equally extraordinary positions in order to diminish, disregard, re-interpret, and/or simply turn a blind eye to the actual FACTUAL evidence to the point that it is deprived of its power over us and can then be dismissed as fiction.
Consequently, most believers don’t worry much about making the case for non-believers. If someone is inclined by the weight of their prejudices to dismiss the weight of evidence that is right there for anyone to read and study for themselves, including the enormous body of scholarship surrounding the life of Jesus, then it’s highly, highly unlikely that any believer is ever going to convince someone that their reasons for dismissing all of the other evidence are like a feather of CONJECTURE on the scale of evidence that is outweighed by a brick of FACT on the other.