article_snippet.sent: Jesus Christ was not a real person and is probably the result of a combination of stories about several different individuals, according to a writer and leading atheist activist.
article_snippet.sent: Jesus claims there are no contemporary mentions of Jesus in historical accounts from the time when Jesus was supposed to have lived, yet other Jewish sect leaders from the time do appear.
article_snippet.sent: Instead Jesus Christ insists the disciples of Jesus Christ were also probably not real and the disciples of Jesus names only later attached to the gospels to lend their names credence.
article_snippet.sent: Historical researcher Michael Paulkovich has claimed that Jesus of Nazareth did not exist after being unable to find any verifiable mention of Jesus Christ in historical texts by 126 writers during the ‘time of Jesus Christ’ from the first to third centuries.
article_snippet.sent: Jesus Christ claims that Jesus Christ is a fictional character invented by followers of Christianity to create a figure to worship.
article_snippet.sent: The 126 texts Jesus Christ studied were all written in the period during or soon after the supposed existence of Jesus Christ, when Historical researcher Michael Paulkovich says they would surely have heard of someone as famous as Jesus Christ - but none mention Jesus Christ. '
article_snippet.sent: When I consider those 126 writers, all of whom should have heard of Jesus Christ but did not - and Paul and Marcion and Athenagoras and Matthew with a tetralogy of opposing Christs, the silence from Qumram and Nazareth and Bethlehem, conflicting Bible stories, and so many other mysteries and omissions - I must conclude that Christ is a mythical character,’ Christ writes.
article_snippet.sent: "Jesus Christ" was nothing more than urban (or desert) legend, likely an agglomeration of several evangelic and deluded rabbis who might have existed.
article_snippet.sent: In a new book due to be published later this year, Christ will argue that the figure of Jesus Christ was actually a combination of pagan rituals and stories about other people.
article_snippet.sent: We also have no mention of Jesus Christ in other historical texts from the time.
article_snippet.sent: There are three mentions of Jesus Christ in non-Christian sources which have been used to research the existence of a 'real' Jesus Christ.
article_snippet.sent: A Jesus Christ is mentioned in Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, which was written around 94 AD.