The Myth of the Jesus Myth: Introduction to the Christ Myth

Recently on the Internet, there has been some raving madmen going around claiming that the historical evidence supports the proposition that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist as a historical figure. Let me be plain and clear. Such an idea is absolute nonsense and is recognized as such by nearly the entire scholarly community.

In support of the mythicist position, they offer usually three pitiful arguments. The first is the silence of contemporary historical writers concerning Jesus. The second is the silence of the Pauline epistles concerning an earthly, historical Jesus. (it is generally argued by mythicists that Paul believed in a Jesus who did not live on Earth, but in sublunar heavenly plane) The third, and by far stupidest argument, is that Jesus closely parallels the pagan deities and mystery religions of that time.

In this series of blogs, we will be doing a refutation of the Christ myth theory. First, we will examine the positive evidence for the existence of Jesus from secular sources. Second, we will examine the evidence the Gospels give us concerning the existence of Jesus. Third, we will examine the evidence the Pauline epistles give us concerning the existence of Jesus. Fourth, we will be refuting the first argument of the mythicist camp, the argument that secular writers are silent. We will do this by examining each of the silent writers they list and demonstrating why their silence is insignificant. Fifth, we will refute the argument that Paul believed in a non Earthly Jesus. Sixth, we will be examining the pagan deities that Jesus mythicists say parallel Jesus.

Have a nice day.