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...
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9 resultsOct 10, 2025
Most ViewedWhat are the specifics of the Trump mortgage fraud allegations?
The core allegations of mortgage-related wrongdoing tied to Donald Trump center on claims that his company , culminating in a 2023 civil ruling that found his business misled banks and insurers and a ...
Nov 8, 2025
Most ViewedHow do non-Christian sources (Josephus, Tacitus) corroborate Gospel accounts of Jesus?
Non‑Christian writers Tacitus and Josephus provide independent ancient attestations that align with the Gospels on three core points: a historical figure called Jesus/Christ existed, he was executed u...
Dec 20, 2025
What non‑Christian ancient sources mention Jesus and how do historians assess their reliability?
Scholars point to a small cluster of non‑Christian ancient sources that mention Jesus — most notably the Jewish historian Josephus and the Roman historian Tacitus — and judge them useful for confirmin...
Nov 22, 2025
Did early Christian communities accept Paul's self-identification as an apostle and why or why not?
Early Christian reaction to Paul’s claim to apostleship was mixed: many communities and later church leaders accepted him as “apostle to the Gentiles,” while some Jerusalem Christians and later critic...
Nov 27, 2025
What are the main arguments of the mythicist position that Jesus never existed?
Mythicists argue chiefly that (A) the surviving sources for Jesus are unreliable or silent on a historical individual and (B) the Jesus figure was assembled from existing mythic and religious motifs—e...
Nov 22, 2025
How did early church leaders like Peter and James view Paul's apostleship?
Early evidence in the provided sources shows that many in the early church accepted Paul’s claim to apostleship and authority—James, Peter (Cephas) and John are described as “pillars” who, according t...
Jan 5, 2026
How do early Christian writers like Pliny the Younger and Suetonius corroborate or differ from Tacitus and Josephus about early Christianity?
Early non-Christian writers—Tacitus and Josephus—provide brief but pointed references that align on key facts about Jesus and the emergent Christian movement (crucifixion under Pilate; growth and orig...
Nov 23, 2025
What do non-Christian first-century sources reveal about how others viewed Jesus' identity?
Non‑Christian first‑ and early‑second‑century writers refer to a figure associated with the name “Christ/Christus” who was executed under Pontius Pilate and who became the focus of a distinct group ca...