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Hey there, Sprouts. Today is Tuesday, September 15th, 2020. This week on the Catholic Sprouts podcast, we are getting to know Jesus Christ. This is the beginning of a journey that

will be on for several weeks around here.

So we are laying the groundwork.

And today, we are embarking on a true detective series.

Now, many smart people, many historians over hundreds and hundreds of years, have really

gone back and asked this question.

Did Jesus really exist?

Was he a real person?

Or is he someone that someone just made up at some point?

Now, there are a lot of things that we can talk about, a lot of very smart people that have devoted

their lives to this question. And all of these people have come to one conclusion. They have

concluded that Jesus really did without a doubt exist. Now, we're going to talk about two of the major facts that led to

this conclusion today. But I want you to know that what I say here is just simply to reinforce what

we talked about last week. Jesus was a real person. He wasn't just made up. He was real. And so the two

big factors that prove, without a doubt, that Jesus was a real person is that there are historical

accounts written by people that were not Christian that write about Jesus Christ.

Now, one of these accounts comes from a Jewish person.

He acknowledges that Jesus was a true person, that he really lived, but he didn't believe

that Jesus Christ was Lord.

Now, why is it so important that a Jewish historian who didn't even

believe that Jesus was God wrote about him? But because it proves that he was real. This Jewish historian

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