Character Quote by F. F. Bruce

Jesus existed, and those vocal persons who deny it do so not because they have considered the evidence with the dispassionate eye of the…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“Discovering the Jewishness of Jesus and of the Early Jesus movement is a crucial step in the continual process of accurate interpretation of the…

— Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg

“enough people disagree with what Jesus is to prevent Him from...from manifesting, as such. And billions don't believe He existed at all. He is…

— Thomm Quackenbush

I think the evidence is just so overwhelming that Jesus existed, that it's silly to talk about him not existing. I don't know anyone…

— Bart D. Ehrman

“If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on him, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion…

— John Shelby Spong

“not the writings that come from prophets inspired by the one true God revealed in Jesus Christ, then why do we find those passages…

— Mark Dever

About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they conceded the…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

“We have to be careful, however, to distinguish between evidence and artifacts. The testimony of an eyewitness can be properly viewed as evidence, but…

— J. Warner Wallace

“Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism. In…

— Reza Aslan

“The truth is that in all probability he (Jesus) never existed, but was created by the Jewish authors of the New Testament as a…

— Christine M. Johns

The early Christians' opponents all accepted that Jesus existed, taught, had disciples, worked miracles, and was put to death on a Roman cross. As…

— Graham Stanton