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Historical methods

The methods used by historians to assess what likely happened in the past, including texts, independent attestation, and criteria such as embarrassment or multiple attestation.

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There is no exact historical data to prove that the miracles performed by Jesus actually happened.

There is no single, unambiguous piece of historical data that proves the supernatural events described as ’ miracles occurred exactly as narrated, and professional historians treat these claims differ...