Fifty years earlier, in his book Why I Am Not a Christian, atheist Bertrand Russell shocked his generation by questioning Jesus’ existence. He wrote: “Historically it is quite doubtful whether Christ ever existed at all, and if He did we do not know anything about Him, so that I am not concerned with the historical question, which is a very difficult one.”2
Is it possible that the Jesus so many believe to be real never
existed? In The Story of Civilization, secular historian
Will Durant posed this question: “Did Christ exist? Is the
life story of the founder of Christianity the product of human
sorrow, imagination, and hope—a myth comparable to the legends
of Krishna, Osiris, Attis, Adonis, Dionysus, and Mithras?”3 Durant pointed out how the story of Christianity has “many
suspicious resemblances to the legends of pagan gods.”4 Later in this article we will see how this great historian answered his own question about the existence of Jesus.
So, how can we know for sure that this man, whom many worship
and others curse, was real? Is Johnson right when she asserts
that Jesus Christ is a “compilation from other gods”?
And is Russell right when he says that Jesus’ existence
is “quite doubtful”?
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