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#755 - DIALOGUE: Jesus' existence and ancient non-Christian testimony

The Counsel of Trent

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The 50-50 Split on the Lack of Reference to Jesus

An atheist named John Remsberg made a list of like 40 or 50 ancient authors who wrote within the first 100 years that Jesus was crucified. He considered that evidence Jesus did not exist because if there were, if Jesus did exist, surely one of these people would have written about him. The absence of mention of Jesus in non-Christian sources doesn't tell us anything one way or another and you can't use it as positive evidence for either case.

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