Apologetic Quote by John Shelby Spong

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

I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting on the…

— Earl Doherty

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

I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.

— Reza Aslan

Our reasons for believing Jesus existed and also that He was who He claimed to be - the God who came down - are…

— Greg Koukl

I'm saying that there's absolutely no conclusive evidence that Jesus ever really existed, even as a mortal. I don't believe he was a historical…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“This is an extremely difficult matter for modern readers of the gospels to grasp, but Luke never meant for his story about Jesus's birth…

— Reza Aslan

“If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did…

— David Fitzgerald

Whatever else may be thought of the evidence from early Jewish and Gentile writers it does at least establish, for those who refuse the…

— F. F. Bruce

“The best apologetic, therefore, is what it always was: the old, weird, incomprehensible, great, gray-green, greasy Gospel story—just laying out in front of people…

— Robert Capon

Why so many mentions regarding Jesus from such a wide variety of sources (Pliny, Tacitus, Lucian, Josephus, to name a few)? Because Jesus of…

— Greg Koukl