Educated Quote by Reza Aslan

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

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 Jesus is a fact of history. I think a man named Jesus of Nazareth lived and was crucified. I think his death…

— John Shelby Spong

“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

As the centuries pass, the evidence is accumulating that, measured by His effect on history, Jesus is the most influential life ever lived on…

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

There is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, during his…

— Dan Barker

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

Jesus as a concrete historical personality remains a stranger to our time, but His spirit, which lies hidden in His words, is known in…

— Albert Schweitzer

Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe…

— Dennis McKinsey

Apologetic explanations do not develop unless there is a reality that has to be explained and defended. Jesus was undeniably a figure of history.

— John Shelby Spong

If we could get people to think about Jesus, we reasoned, Jesus was more than able to reveal himself to them.

— Judah Smith

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to…

— John Dominic Crossan