It's great when Christians stand up to extreme skeptics who say Jesus never existed.

But sometimes they make a misstep and say things about Jesus that aren't true,

and it makes them look historically naive.

So in today's episode, we'll find out what that misstep is and how to make a case for the historicity of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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All right, so I'll see Christians respond to critics who say Jesus never existed with memes

like this one that say Jesus is the most recorded figure in the ancient world, or videos

where people say Jesus' life is one of the best established facts in the ancient world, or videos where people say Jesus's life is one of

the best established facts of the ancient world. But that's not true, and you risk getting exposed by a

skeptic who knows how the evidence stacks up. Let's take a look at a few examples of this.

If you asked your friends who are thinking this way, if they think Alexander the Great is a fairy tale, what would they say?

If you ask that George, if George Washington, the first president of our country,

it was a fairy tale, would they say yes, he's a fairy tale?

Both of those, Alexander the Great and George Washington,

the amount of historical documentation about them is paltry compared to what we have about Jesus. We have documents not just from

Jesus' closest friends, the apostles, right? The Apostles Peter, Apostle Paul, who saw him on the

road to Damascus, the apostles, we have documentation about Jesus from his enemies.

Except we don't have documents about Jesus from his enemies.

Except we don't have documents from Jesus' first century enemies, like the Sanhedron or Pontius Pilate. The so-called report from Pilot to Emperor Tiberius is a well-known

fourth or fifth century forgery. And we obviously have more evidence for the life of George

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