Dec 18, 2025
Most ViewedDid Jesus exist
Consensus among mainstream historians and biblical scholars is that a historical person called Jesus of Nazareth did live in first‑century Palestine; this judgment rests on multiple early Christian an...
Bart D. Ehrman
American biblical scholar (born 1955)
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12 resultsNov 2, 2025
Most ViewedIs Jesus a real person that lived on earth ?
Most historians and New Testament scholars conclude that who lived in first‑century Judea, though they disagree sharply about the details of his life and the theological claims made about him; this co...
Nov 8, 2025
Most ViewedHow reliable are the four Gospels as historical accounts of Jesus' life?
Scholars agree Jesus of Nazareth existed, but the four canonical Gospels’ reliability as straightforward historical biographies is contested: defenders argue they preserve eyewitness testimony and anc...
Jan 29, 2026
Why are there contradictions in the bible
are debated because the collection is a multi‑voice, multi‑century compilation whose texts were written, copied and translated under differing historical, theological and literary pressures; defenders...
Jan 29, 2026
What is the historical consensus among non-Christian scholars about Jesus' resurrection?
Most non-Christian professional historians accept as historical that lived in first‑century , taught, and was executed by crucifixion, and they also acknowledge early Christian claims that his tomb wa...
Nov 7, 2025
Are new testament reliable
The available analyses converge on two firm points: , and . Debates focus on textual transmission quality, the genre and sources of the Gospels, and which episodes can be treated as historically certa...
Jan 24, 2026
What do mainstream historians say about the authorship and dating of the New Testament books?
Mainstream historians and New Testament scholars treat as evidence-based, qualified judgments: a handful of letters (most of the undisputed ine corpus) are widely dated to the and linked to Paul’s cir...
Dec 20, 2025
How do scholars evaluate the historicity of the New Testament accounts of Jesus' resurrection?
Scholars separate the question of what the New Testament reports from the question of whether those reports describe historical events; most agree on a small cluster of facts—Jesus’ crucifixion, an ea...
Nov 7, 2025
Is jesus actually god
The question “Is Jesus actually God?” divides historians, theologians and faith communities into competing conclusions rooted in different types of evidence: biblical texts and creeds, early church wr...
Feb 2, 2026
Not all documentary records from the same era as Jesus support the claim that Jesus performed miracles.
Contemporaneous and near‑contemporaneous records present a mixed picture: some ancient writers and later Jewish sources report that was known as a wonder‑worker, while other records, textual criticism...
Jan 19, 2026
Was Jesus real?
Mainstream historians conclude that a historical figure called Jesus of Nazareth very likely existed as a 1st‑century Jewish teacher who was baptized and later executed by Roman authorities, a positio...
Dec 7, 2025
How do major gnostic texts like the Gospel of Thomas differ theologically from the New Testament gospels?
The Gospel of Thomas is a noncanonical collection of 114 sayings that differs sharply from the narrative, apostolic, and resurrection-centered gospels in the New Testament; scholars date Thomas mostly...