Defending the Faith: An agnostic's argument that Jesus did exist

By Daniel Peterson, For the Deseret News

Published: Thursday, July 12 2012 5:00 a.m. MDT

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Bart Ehrman is a respected New Testament scholar who holds a professorial chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Furthermore, in addition to his academic works, he's published four New York Times best-sellers.

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coltakashi

Richland, WA

There is more documentary evidence of the existence of Jesus of Nazareth than there is of most of his contemporaries in the First Century. There are documentary references to him in the writings of Josephus and other non-Christians. The claim that More..

11:06 a.m. July 12, 2012
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romorg

PROVO, UT

@ Craig Clark

That is ridiculous. There are numerous God theories that have risen throughout history. Most of them preclude the others from being true. So, how is it that the rise of Christianity is any more convincing of its More..

8:50 a.m. July 12, 2012
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Craig Clark

Boulder, CO

romorg,

".....how is it that the rise of Christianity is any more convincing of its truthfulness than the others?"

It doesn’t. But the rise of Christianity is evidence enough for me that there was a man named Jesus More..

9:08 a.m. July 12, 2012
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Daniel Peterson

Daniel C. Peterson, professor of Islamic studies and Arabic at BYU, is editor-in-chief of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, founder of MormonScholarsTestify.org, chairman of "Interpreter: A Journal of Mormon Scripture" more ..

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