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historical Jesus who had anything like the career ascribed to him in the gospels, the absence of earlier references becomes very hard to explain. When Rabbis do begin to mention him, they are so vague in their chronology that they differ by as much as 200 years in the dates they assign to him. . . . It is clear from this that they never thought of testing whether he had existed, but took for granted that this name stood for a real person.... But let us see what modern Jewish scholarship, as represented by Sandmel and Goldstein, has to say about Jesus' historicity. Sandmel concedes that what knowledge we have of him "comes only from the NT", "since he went unknown in the surviving Jewish and pagan literature of his time"; and that passages about him in the ancient rabbinical literature of reflect NT material and give no information that is independent of Christian tradition. That the Talmud is useless as a source of reliable information about Jesus is conceded by most Christian scholars. I 1

Other Talmudic references to Jesus, cloaked by the name "Balaam," are derogatory condemnations written centuries after the purported advent, thus serving as commentary on the tradition, not testimony to any "history."

Wells further states:

Now that so much in the NT has fallen under suspicion, there is a natural tendency to exaggerate the importance of nonChristian material that seems to corroborate it-even though Christian scholars past and present have admitted that, on the matter of Jesus' historicity, there is no pagan or Jewish evidence worth having ...12

To reiterate, "The forged New Testament booklets and the foolish writings of the Fathers, are the sole `evidence' we have for the alleged facts and doctrines of our most holy Faith," as, adds Wheless, is admitted by the Catholic Encyclopedia itself. 13

As it is said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"; yet, no proof of any kind for the historicity of Jesus has ever existed or is forthcoming.

1. Eusebius, 30.

2. Jackson, 186.

3. Wheless, FC.

4. Mangasarian.

5. Wheless, FC, 115-6.

6. Waite, 506-7.

7. Taylor, 395-6.

8. Mead, DA, 48.

9. Massey, HJMC, 186-197.

10. Larson, 281.

11. Wells, DJE, 12.

12. Wells, DJE, 207.

13. Wheless, FC, 125.

Further Evidence of a Fraud

There is basically no textual evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ, other than forged biblical books and epistles. In our quest we will now examine what proponents and opponents of the Christian religion were claiming beginning in the second century, during which the "new faith" actually arose. Little of the actual works of most opponents survives, unfortunately, because the Christian conspirators went on a censorship rampage for centuries. However, in their refutations the Christians themselves preserved their opponents' main points of contention, the most important of which was that the whole story was fabricated. In fact, from their own admissions the early Christians were incessantly under criticism by scholars of great repute whom the Christians at first viciously impugned and later murdered by the thousands. Yet, it was not only the dissenters and Pagans who apprehended the truth, as the Christians themselves continuously disclosed that they knew the story and religion of Jesus Christ were not original but were founded upon more ancient myths and ideologies throughout the known world.

For example, the eminent Church doctor Augustine readily confessed that Christianity was a rehash of what already existed long prior to the Christian era:

That which is known as the Christian religion existed among the ancients, and never did not exist; from the beginning of the human race until the time when Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion, which already existed, began to be called Christianity.

In addition, in the face of criticism that Christianity was fabricated, Eusebius sought to demonstrate it was not "novel or strange" by claiming it was based on older ideas. Says he:

. . . although we certainly are a youthful people and this undeniably new name of Christians