Question:
Please please help me... I'm begging you?
?
2012-08-21 21:06:37 UTC
Atheists, non-believers, trollers and haters please leave this alone, I need help and your negativity won't help me at all. Thank you.

I've gone to church my whole life and for the past few years I've really been struggling with my faith. I know all the stories and stuff about God and Jesus and I've read alot of the bible but I still have so many doubts.. I try praying.. Every day for years and years but I don't feel anything. Should I feel like my prayers are going somewhere? I just feel alone.. Like there is no God up in heaven. It seems too good to be real and I feel like all my faith is slipping away. I don't feel his presence like I should.
I haven't been able to sleep for the past week because I've been up all night thinking about the world and religion and if god exists or not. I want to believe... I really really do. But I can't just snap my fingers and make myself believe in God. I dont know what to do or where to start but I feel so empty and reading the bible and praying have done nothing.. That's what everyone has told me to do but what's the point of praying if the words don't go farther than the ceiling?
And is there any historical or actual proof that Jesus ever lived on the earth?
28 answers:
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:18:47 UTC
God loves you and you need to accept Jesus as Lord because you do not hear Jesus and that is an indication that you just think you are saved. But that is easy then you need to learn to listen for the still small voice when He talks to you. He will use bible scriptures to show you things so you need to start reading the bible and you can do that online at www.biblegateway.com

now for the prayer for your salvation pray these words out loud and mean then:



"Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from you. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward you. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I renounce all involvement with the evil one and his traps and I cast down those lies the devil has shown me are my demise I refuse them now and ask that you cancel them in my life. Thank you Lord Jesus.

I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen."



go to these links to learn how to hear God speaking to you.

http://www.twolisteners.org/

http://www.twolisteners.org/Introduction.htm

http://www.twolisteners.org/Eventide.htm



now go to this site for the Faith scriptures you are to begin to memorize'

http://www.prayingscriptures.com/faithconfessions.shtml

always say them out loud
?
2012-08-21 21:27:25 UTC
I don't know why you're expecting negativity from atheists. Many of us have been in the same situation you describe, and have some worthwhile insight to offer.



You've said that you're feeling like nothing you've been taught about God and religion feels real anymore, like you keep trying to grab hold of something but there's nothing there. It sounds like that idea frightens or disturbs you. That's not surprising, given that you've probably been taught for a very long time that there *should* and *must* be something "up there," and that it would be horrible if there wasn't.



But would it, really? Think about it for a minute. Would it be that bad if the universe were just... the universe? If there isn't any God, and that's been the case all along, then... nothing has changed. God didn't suddenly disappear. If he hasn't been there all along, then everything good in your own life, and in the world in general, has still been good without a God to make it so. People still fall in love. Strangers still help one another when they're in need. Puppies and kittens are still cute. Morality won't collapse if you decide that you don't think God is real, and the planet won't spin out of its orbit into the frozen depths of space.



In the mental health profession, when someone is experiencing persistent anxiety about an idea or possibility, they're often asked to imagine "what's the worst that could happen," and decide if that worst-case scenario is really as bad as they're afraid it is. In the case of an atheistic universe, I really don't think it *is* that bad. I don't think it's bad at all. Religion just teaches us to assume that it would be bad.



You say you feel alone. That's understandable, but you're not -- even if there is no God up there listening to your prayers. You're not alone because there are plenty of us out there who have all struggled with the same questions and fears. You're not alone because you have family and friends who care about you and will support you, whether or not the universe you live in contains a God. There's nothing wrong with you for asking these questions, and there's nothing wrong with you for suspecting that what you've been taught about God doesn't add up. There's nothing wrong with you for not "feeling his presence." And while there's nothing wrong with you for being afraid, the possibility that you're right about God not being real doesn't have to be scary. Because really, nothing changes. The world still is what it is. It's only how you think about it that's different.
PDY
2012-08-21 21:20:23 UTC
You should read the book, "The Heart of Christianity" by Marcus J. Borg. He takes all the gobbledygook that appears in the Bible and explains how it is really a beautiful book about love for your fellow man. I suspect you belong to a Christian group that asks you to take everything in the Bible literally. If we did that we would go completely crazy because there are so many oddities. Read this book. I truly think it will help you to understand the true meaning, which is for the most part, be a good person and be good to other people. In other words, "Do unto others as you would have done unto you."
TruthNoGame
2012-08-21 21:28:53 UTC
If you appeal exclusively to believers, they cannot help you here. They will only tell you more of what you can no longer believe.



They will tell you specifically that dark days are ahead for you if you continue down the path which you are now on, that you have the "choice" (as if believing anything has ever been a choice or a "decision") to reverse this by voluntary subjection to hours of positive affirmation until you are almost fooled again, but only for a little while.



If you fail to become a strong believer again you will see darkness because they will make your life so through separation. So, welcome to the dark side! Leave them behind to meet other people who are too smart for their nonsense, and you will see a lot more light than darkness. Find a meetup of other non-believers and you will find that there are fewer of them who are like Alister Crowley than there are priests who are pedophiles and revival preachers who are thieves (not to mention frauds).
?
2012-08-21 21:23:38 UTC
Why? Do you need religion to believe in love, kindness, and acceptance? If you are looking to God for the faith and feelings of love that you have, than I commend you and I encourage you to continue, but I don't think God is *necessary* in order to believe in love. I have many Christian friends who cast off religion because they didn't agree 100% with what the religion preached, but they later returned to it because they found people like them who questioned and disagreed and decided to preach only the good, loving things from Christianity. Many returned to the religion much stronger than they had been before they decided to leave.



Maybe you have been questioning your religion as of late, and that is why you've lost some of that feeling of his presence. One thing you shouldn't do is to fight it. If you are questioning for any reason, than the best thing you can do is to look into your questions and develop your own thoughts from them. Many people turn away from religion because they think that they need to follow blindly in order to be in religion and believe in God. If you try and force yourself to follow blindly, you will only fight it subconsciously more. You're right, you can't snap your fingers and believe in God. You need to look into yourself and find the reason to believe.



Maybe you should look at religion like a relationship, and you love God but you need some time to figure yourself out. There is nothing wrong with that. This is something that praying and what other people say cannot do for you, just like whatever your friends say about a boyfriend or girlfriend will ultimately not really help you make your own decision about them. This is all inside you, and I have faith that you will find love through all of this :)
Cactus12
2012-08-21 23:00:29 UTC
I suggest that you have a study of the Bible with somebody who respects it and who will help you to get to know God better. God does want you to know him.



(Acts 17:26-28) . . .And he made out of one [man] every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of the dwelling of [men], 27 for them to seek God, if they might grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us. 28 For by him we have life and move and exist, . . .



(James 4:8) . . .Draw close to God, and he will draw close to YOU. . . .



Maybe a first step is to have confidence in the Bible that it is God's word. You can study the prophesies that are written there eg Matthew 24, Luke 21, Revelation 4, 2 Timothy 3 - when you have confidence in this then you can believe what is written about Jesus.



If you're interested I can help you. Freely send me an email.
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:17:03 UTC
There is the shroud of turin which is the piece of cloth which is said to hold Jesus' body after he was crucified on the cross, there is also another piece of fabric which was said to be wrapped around his face, scientist also testing the blood and they are a match, even though they were far apart for a while. My sister is also facing this decision but I am confinced there is because when I pray, it does come true once when my aunt was in the hospital everyone though she was going to die so we said a couple prays for her and she lived, also when she did die she smiled and told the nurse she had seen God.
Rational Gunther, Troll Patrol
2012-08-21 21:23:12 UTC
Several important points:



First, faith isn't a feeling. It's a trust. We all doubt, and there's nothing wrong with you doubting. In my opinion, we have to embrace the doubt, ask God for help with the doubt, and confront it. Find answers. Search. There's no question that is too big for God, if he exists, and so we ought to ask the big questions.



Second, I don't doubt that you feel like your prayers are going nowhere. If you can't trust that God is there, the very foundation of prayer is missing for you.



Third, yes, absolutely, without question Jesus existed and walked the earth. You CANNOT explain history without the historical Jesus.



In the middle east in the first century, orphans roamed the streets. Babies were born and thrown away when their mothers didn't want them. Romans killed for fun and pleasure. There was no inherent value to life in the most powerful, most prominent culture to ever arise on the face of the earth. Women were not citizens, and couldn't be. They were hysterical, untrustworthy, and meant to serve men. Men that had power used their power to further their own aims.



That's the environment that Jesus came to. His ideas were so revolutionary, they changed the world. Life became valuable. Women were treated by him as if they were equal to men. He taught that we should love others more than ourselves. He showed himself that we should use the power that we have to help others.



The historians agree that Jesus lived, that he had a ministry of miracles, that he was crucified by the Romans, and that he was seen alive after his burial by his followers. Even the historians that REJECT anything special about Jesus accept as an historical fact some event in which the disciples of Jesus came to see him risen from the dead and which transformed them afterward. This is beyond question!



Skeptical scholars like Elaine Pagels and James Tabor (both of whom you'll see on TV a lot) and (my personal favorite) Gerd Ludemann all agree that Jesus was a real figure in history and that he was believed to have risen from the dead. Ludemann imagines a fanciful mass hallucination, an event -- when you understand psychology and dreaming -- that is completely impossible. Nevertheless, he HAS to suggest some explanation for the resurrection, so necessary it is to explain the transformative experience that turned the disciples of a little-known itinerant preacher into bold visionaries who turned and changed the world, then died for the testimony that they'd seen the risen Christ.



Followers of Jesus began to radically change the way the world worked, so much so that one Roman official complained in a letter that the Christians took better care of Romans than the Romans themselves did.



Yes, absolutely Jesus was real.



Today it has become common to pretend that Jesus never existed, but there is quite a lot of evidence to the contrary, and no legitimate scholar accepts this ridiculous, unscholarly, unsubstantiated claim.



You might like the book "The Case for Christ." It's recommended a little too often, but it will address for you exactly the information on this question. The author, Lee Strobel, was a Puliter-prize winning journalist who was incensed when his wife decided to become a follower of Jesus. Strobel set out to prove the Bible wrong and bring his wife back to her senses, and instead he ended up becoming a believer himself. The book retraces his journey of discovery; the framework of it is a little trite because you know what his conclusion will be -- that Jesus is who he said he was -- but the book is excellent because it leads you to experts in various disciplines that talk about the evidence for the real, historical Jesus. (There's another book by Josh McDowell, Evidence for the Historical Jesus, that is also very good.)





Turns out that The Case for Christ has been turned in to a documentary, and it's available on YouTube, here: http://www.youtube.com/movie?v=ZMKOUzYeZ6A&feature=mv_sr



I've never seen this, but it might be worth a watch for you. Surely it can't go into the detail of the book, but I'm sure it will address some of the very questions you have about Jesus.







EDIT: Allie, I'm 20 minutes into watching The Case for Christ via the link I provided, and it's excellent. You should really spend the hour watching this video. It will answer a great deal of questions for you, I think, that you can't get answered here, by skeptics who've never looked in to the facts.



It bothers me when others want to tell you what to think, and that's what many of the atheists here are trying to do. You need to understand that they feel better about themselves and their own choices when they convince someone else to think the way that they do.



I advocated right up front that you investigate and search for the truth; do that. You can't go wrong looking for truth in an unbiased fashion.
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:09:31 UTC
http://www.gotquestions.org

http://www.rationalchristianity.net

http://www.fathersloveletter.com/text.html



Everyone has doubts sometimes. It's normal. God can use it to strengthen your faith!



Also, research the evidence for Christianity. Here are some books you might like:

"The Case For Christ" by Lee Strobel

"Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis

"Evidence That Demands A Verdict" by Josh McDowell

"I Don't Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist" by Norman Geisler & Frank Turek
?
2012-08-21 21:50:04 UTC
Yes, there is proof of his existence here on the earth. I would ask your pastor about what to do, explain to him how you feel. Ill be praying for your faith, I hope you can come to know the truth and feel the presence of God.
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:15:22 UTC
You need to go to a Black church. This is no joke. White churches, just feed information and don't really elaborate or intrigue you as they should. Also, surround yourself with Christians. And there is definitely proof that Jesus existed, just not proof that he was as great as people say. Jesus isn't the easiest concept, I have trouble with it too. But, I just look around and see that the world and its wonders had to be created by an almighty God. It didn't just pop out of nowhere.
?
2012-08-21 21:20:07 UTC
Faith is not blind, Allie:



That is why God worked miracles for Israel. After watching God drown their enemies in the Red Sea, God expected Israel to ACT IN FAITH based on previous evidence.



Likewise, Jesus calmed the elements, created food, healed the blind and impaired, and raised stinking corpses. Then, watching that evidence of His divinity, He expected them to act through EDUCATED FAITH. And they did, often dying for that faith.



Today, Allie, do you think God will not give you tangible evidence in this atheist world? He wants you to go through the time of trouble that never was since there was a nation.



His remedy: Hide one portion of scripture that will define God's plan to save you AND EARTH, all in their proper times.



Now you can unlock the only verses int he Bible that are "sealed and closed up until the end of the days." THEIR MESSAGE WILL GIVE INSTRUCTIONS AND BUILD FAITH:



English> http://revelado.org/thetimeoftheend.pdf -- Arabic> http://revelado.org/arabic.pdf



Blessings, Messiah
?
2012-08-21 21:11:37 UTC
Hey. I am Muslim, and Islam through Quran gives me an answer. And I will say it's the best answer that our human mind can get and understand logically.



The Existence of a God:

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Think of it as this.. If the big bang theory or nature created us just randomly!

Could the smart phones we have created now be created randomly by nature or big bang?

I don't think so, and I think you agree.

So, how the hell a smart build like us humans was built randomly, that can't be, and that's not logical.

That leads to one thing, that is, there's a powerful perfect creator who made this.



The Concept of a Creator:

===================

Now if you believe that there is a creator. IF you do. What would you think? I'd think this. His powerfully perfect and have all the knowledge of everything and just ultimately have everything.



Every religion has it's own concept of the creator. We will go through the largest religions in our world.



Bible (King James Version):



3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

___________________________________________________________________



You see there a concept of a god that Adam and Eve actually heard him walking? That means he have feet! That means he looks like a human? Also, he asks where are Adam and Eve? Shouldn't a god know where's everything?



Quran:

I'll just translate, because it's in Arabic:



-That's Moses talking ("O my Lord! Show me (Yourself), that I may look upon You.'' Allah said: "You cannot see Me,'')



What it says here that, a human like Moses (Pbuh) can't see god, but why?



-(So when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He made it collapse to dust, and Musa fell down unconscious.)



That's why, because god is too powerful to look at, and that's logical for a creator, yes?

So, when will we see god, or how?



-(Some faces that Day shall be radiant. Looking at their Lord.)



That means, we will see be ABLE to see that day, what's that day? It's Judgement day. So we can't now, on this life, but why we are able to see that day, then? Because we will be new creatures, and better humans. That we are able to see god, and with that, we will get to know what's beyond our knowledge now.



The Logical Truth:

=============

So the answer I give is, God, don't have a beginning nor an end, he's was there forever and he's the most powerful and he's the one who created this world and us. Till that day we will get to know more.



Islam is what you seek, please don't be ignorant and just have a look at Quran.



I hope it helped. Any other questions, be most welcome to ask.
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:21:46 UTC
sweetie, it's hard for me to relate, because i've always believed, but from what you've written, it sounds like you lack faith, and faith is imperative. since i've come to this terrible website, i've done a lot of research in order to answer unbelievers' questions, and it's only confirmed what i already believed.



anyway, you might be interested in Lee Strobel's writings. he was an atheist, ivy league trained, working as an investigative reporter for the chicago tribune. his wife became a Christian and he set out to prove her wrong. he couldn't and became a preacher. he researched for two years... until he finally realized that he'd be a fool not to believe.



also, there is proof of Jesus' earthly existence. below is a list of nonBiblical sources and a link. check it out. God bless you.



Ancient Christian, Jewish, and pagan records speak of Jesus.



Flavius Josephus (37-100 AD). In Antiquities of the Jews



Alexamenos graffito (first century AD)



Paleochristian graffitti (first - fifth century AD )



Jewish Babylonian Talmud



Pliny, governor of Bithynia (c. 112 AD)



Tacitus, in his Annals (c. 115 AD)



Suetonius (c 120 AD)



Celsus, a pagan philosopher (c 178 AD)



Lucian of Samosata called “the Voltaire of Grecian literature” (c 115-200 AD)



Porphyry of Tyre “Life of Pythagoras” (born c 233 AD)



please watch this youtube video. it explains the writings i have mentioned above.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrRQqYGf4O0
Karl
2012-08-21 21:12:09 UTC
Know this about prayer, it is a three step process. God likes the number three.

1. We pray to Jesus and ask God for help/something. In Jesus' name.

2. God prepares us to handle this so once we get it we will not fail with it. So God teaches us how to handle what we ask for so we will have it our whole lives. God is good, so he prepares us and then gives it. How great is that?

3. God gives us what we asked for. Knowing we will not have to pray for this again.

Many ask and while #2 is happening they give up. So they do not get to #3.

So try praying again, now that you know how it works. And the more you ask for, the longer it usually takes to prepare you for it.



Only God can reveal the meaning of his word, the bible. So if we want to know the truth we must ask God to show us meanings and give us understanding or we just guess. Before we start reading the bible ask God for knowledge and understanding, then we can know and understand it as God gives it to us. The bible is Martian to us, so read it this way. God has to help us understand or we can not understand much of it.

If I wanted to know something written is Martian, I would go to someone that speaks Martian and ask them what it means so that I may understand what it says. Or I could look at it, not understanding, then say it means this or that: not knowing Martian, I could try to make it mean whatever i wanted, though this would not be the right interpretation.

Many do this with the bible, it is God's word and only God can tell us the meaning of things and give us understanding too. Or we just guess or make something up. So go to God and ask him directly for the truth of his word. And God can do this through any bible, not just some but all.

hope this helps and take care.



Doing these things will blow the roof off of your situation, you will not longer be confined in it.

Pray, wait and receive the best from God. Pray, read and learn from God. Notice how everything starts with prayer and ends with God.

bless you.
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:09:49 UTC
There's no historical proof that Jesus ever lived on the earth. The sources people of faith rely upon, like those "DB" posted above, are generally considered fraudulent.
skullhead
2012-08-22 00:32:33 UTC
I declare in Jesus name louvre encounters with Jesus over you. Holy Spirit I pray work in Him and remove the scales right now thank you
Amit
2012-08-22 03:36:03 UTC
Make a promise to yourself and keep it. Make a small promise but dont break it. Be good in any small way that you choose.



You dont have to do anything big ...just a small good thing is fine. One step at a time. And make progress.



You will gain confidence in goodness, in your own goodness, and in Him.



Dont limit him to anyone form or religion....



He is nothing but truth when it wins in all odds.

He is Love when its unselfish and fearless.

He is beauty in perfect simplicity and innocence.

He is help in hopelessness...unsolicited and deeply needed.



You have faith. Be His.
?
2012-08-21 21:36:03 UTC
Don't ask a questions if you don't want answers. Here's what one man wrote after realizing that all gods are just fabrications of our minds. This is followed by proof (even from the Bible) that Jesus never existed.



"When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free — free to think, to express my thoughts — free to live my own ideal, free to live for myself and those I loved, free to use all my faculties, all my senses, free to spread imagination's wings, free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope, free to judge and determine for myself ... I was free! I stood erect and fearlessly, joyously faced all worlds."

— Robert G. Ingersoll, 1896



Short answer: The evidence shows that Jesus is just a mythical character and never existed.



Here's the long answer (with evidence), which is needed to cover all bases:



All reliable evidence points to Jesus Christ being just a myth. There is no reliable evidence that Jesus even existed, and significant evidence that he didn't. The evidence is in the Bible, the other religions of the time, and the lack of writings about Jesus by historians of the time.



The story of Jesus can be shown to be just a myth created to fulfill prophesy, cobbled together out of stories from the Old Testament and previous gods and myths -- created in the 40's and 50's by Paul of Tarsus (who exhibited symptoms of epilepsy and had delusions of Christ talking to him), the other apostles, the unknown authors of the gospels in the 70's or later, and many other people. The reliable evidence for this is overwhelming.



Paul and the other epistle writers don't know any biographical details of Jesus' life, or even the time of his earthly existence. They don't refer to Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee, Calvary or Golgotha — or any pilgrimages to what should have been holy sites of Jesus' life. They also don't mention any miracles that Jesus was supposed to have worked, his virgin birth, his trial, the empty tomb, his moral teachings. To them Jesus was largely a sky-god, who existed in the spiritual past.



If Jesus had actually existed, Paul would have written about his life, disciples, and teachings. Paul did not write about any of this. Paul wrote (in Romans 16:25-26, Galatians 1:11,12) that he knew Jesus through revelation, which is another term for fantasy and delusions. We can also tell that people were accusing Paul of lying, because he attempted to defend himself in Romans 3:5-8.



If Jesus had actually existed, the gospels would have been written in first person format. Instead, they were written in third person fiction format like a Harry Potter story, with Matthew and Luke extensively plagiarizing from Mark. The gospels don't even claim to be eyewitness accounts, and were written in Greek - which the disciples would not have known. In fact, there are no claimed eyewitness acounts of Jesus - anywhere.



If the Jesus story were true, his trial would have been legal. Instead, the purported trial was illegitimate under both Roman and Jewish law. The story of the trial is just a re-telling of the Jewish ritual of scapegoating, where one goat is set free (i.e. Barabbas, which means "son of the father") and one goat is sacrificed (i.e. Jesus).



If Jesus had actually existed, at least one of the approximately 30 local historians of the first century would have written about him. No historian of the first century (including Josephus and Philo of Alexandria) wrote about him or his disciples.



Therefore Jesus didn't exist.



The Jesus story also shows extensive similarities to other myths of the time (especially Dionysus, Mithra, and Horus). Some early Christians attributed this to Satan who went back in time and created the religions that "copied" Christianity.



There were more than a dozen other deities and saviors who were resurrected after violent deaths -- Mithra, Osiris/Serapis, Inanna/Ishtar, Horus, Perseus, Bacchus, Attis, Hermes, Adonis, Hercules/Heracles, Tammuz, Asclepius, and Prometheus. Christianity just told the story the best, and managed to get control of the government under Constantine.



For much more evidence, see the links.
?
2012-08-21 21:19:38 UTC
In as far as Jesus living on earth, yes, there is tons of proof from both Jewish and Roman sources. Not one credible historian doubts that Jesus existed. Whether or not He was Divine there can be NO proof for or against that position. What people can point to are indications. One of the biggest ones to me is what the apostles did. These were people who knew the truth about Christ's life, death and resurrection. Yet ALL of them suffered horribly, and all but John died horrible deaths which in many cases could have been avoided had they only admitted that they were lying. If you knew you were lying about something would you be willing to die to say it was true? So obviously all of these people KNEW that what they were teaching was the truth. That fact which was one of the main things that brought me back to Christianity after I had drifted away.



In as far as historical proofs of Jesus existing he is mentioned in ALL of these works:

Tacitus, Annals

Suetonius, Life of Claudius

Suetonius, Life of Nero

Suetonius, Lives of the Caesars, 26.2

Pliny the Younger, Epistles, (Epistles X, 96)

Lucian of Samosata, The Death of Peregrine, 11-13

Phlegon, Chronicles, (as cited by Julius Africanus, Chronography, 18.1)

Thallus, in his collection of “histories of the Eastern Mediterranean world from the Trojan War to his own time”, as cited by Julius Africanus, Chronicles, 18.1

Mara Bar-Serapion, Syrian philosopher, as cited by F.F. Bruce, The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable?

Trajan, Roman emperor (Pliny the Younger, Epistles 10:97)

Macrobius, Saturnalia, lib. 2, ch. 4

Hadrian, Roman emperor (Justin Martyr, The First Apology, chs. 68, 69)

Antonius Pius, Roman emperor (Justin Martyr, The First Apology, ch. 70)

Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (Justin Martyr, The First Apology, ch. 71)

Juvenal, Satires, 1, lines 147-157

Seneca, Epistulae Morales, Epistle 14 “On the Reasons for Withdrawing from the World,” par. 2

Hierocles (Eusebius, The Treatise of Eusebius, ch. 2)

Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XVIII, 3

Flavius Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, XX, 9

Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 43a; cf. t. Sanhedrin 10:11; y. Sanhedrin 7:12; Tg. Esther 7:9)

Babylonian Talmud (b. Sanhedrin 67a; y. Sanhedrin 7:16)

Babylonian Talmud (b. Sanhedrin 107b; t. Sabbath 11:15; b. Sabbath 104b; b. Sota 47a), as cited by Joseph Klausner

Babylonian Talmud (b. Yebamoth 49a; m. Yebamoth 4:13; b. Sanhedrin 106b; see also b. Sanhedrin 104b), as cited by Joseph Klausner
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:11:57 UTC
You might try my prayer when I got saved. All I said was "Jesus IF YOU ARE REAL come into my life and take control as I am out of control." I have been serving Him since then and that was 1980.
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:11:42 UTC
Well, archaeological evidence has established that Nazareth didn't exist when Jesus was walking the Earth.
?
2012-08-21 21:10:13 UTC
How long have you been living this way without it telling you something!

But you don't want help, do you? You want sympathy and validation.

Neither of those will alleviate your spiritual anxiety.

Spirituality does not require theism.

But, I'm sorry--you don't want help, do you.
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:08:51 UTC
Yes, there is proof that Jesus lived on this Earth.
Khaled
2012-08-25 16:58:50 UTC
Here Allie, add me: mutawa_k@yahoo.comI'll chat with you. You will thank me for this(:
anonymous
2012-08-21 21:11:29 UTC
I think this guy went through the same thing as you:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQJrud71gL8&list=PLA0C3C1D163BE880A
?
2012-08-21 21:08:02 UTC
I'm an atheist troll. But I'm a lover, not a hater.
?
2012-08-21 21:08:25 UTC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=QdUGoFTfP7w&NR=1


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