Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

I remember when I was in high school, this was shortly after my conversion.

I remember sitting in, I was hanging out with a friend at his house, we were watching

videos on the internet.

And he told me, hey, you got to see this one video called Zikeist because there's a

part of it that shows Jesus never existed.

Those videos been out there for a while and obviously, because I saw it in high school.

And there's a lot of different rebuttals to it though, I might do a full length rebuttal

to Zikeist because I haven't found any rebuttals that I've been super happy with like that

they're really comprehensive, go through the whole thing.

I wanted today to address one of the arguments that are made by people who claim Jesus never

existed.

So these people are called mythicists.

They believe that Jesus was just a story or an allegory and Christians came to believe

he was a historical individual later.

This is a radical fringe view in scholarship.

There's only like a handful of people with PhDs in the relevant fields who believe this.

We read Bart Irman who was an agnostic scholar, big critic of Christianity.

He wrote a book called Did Jesus Exist back in 2012.

And in that book, he said that it's the opinion of virtually every, every expert on the planet

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