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, Caholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And today I'm going to talk about three bad ways to combat Jesus' mythicism.

So mythicism is the view that Jesus never existed.

He was a fictional character, a mythic character, and that Christianity was not based in any

way on an actual Jesus of Nazareth who walked the earth.

Now I will say that Jesus' mythicism is not uncommon among certain atheist communities

online, but it's practically non-existent among scholars.

So if you read Bart Erman's book, so Bart Erman is an agnostic New Testament scholar.

He used to be Christian.

He left the faith.

He's one of the world's leading experts on New Testament documents.

So even as an agnostic, Erman tells us on page four of his 2012 book,

did Jesus exist that it is the opinion of virtually every expert on the planet that Jesus did exist.

So there are only a handful, maybe I probably count them on one hand of people with relevant

PhDs who believe that Jesus never existed.

And to my knowledge, none of them teach at major universities or seminaries or anything

like that.

But you've probably come across people online who said that Jesus didn't exist.

They're a mythist.

So the story of Jesus was copied from pagan mythology.

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