It's one of those questions that's, oh, just a little bit controversial, was Jesus of

Nazareth an actual historical person?

Even the question is more complicated than it sounds, and just about everyone who's

published on this comes down hard on one side or the polar opposite.

Today we're going to look at the historicity of Jesus Christ from a neutral perspective,

which so far as I can tell has never been tried before, and that's coming up right now

on Skeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com, episode 603-score and 6, the historicity of Jesus Christ.

Today we're going to take the waitiest question in all of human history, upon which wars

have been fought and countless lives sacrificed.

National borders drawn and obliterated.

Great cities and nations destroyed, others created and history made, and distill it into

a few minutes of podcast chatter.

This question can be none other than whether Jesus of Nazareth, who died on the cross, was

a real living person who walked the earth.

Two thousand years ago.

The first point to make something you'll discover early on when researching this question

is that virtually all the articles written on this come to a pretty firm conclusion, one

way or the other.

They typically end with something like, this leaves little room for doubt, followed by their

conclusion that Jesus almost certainly did live and die as a man, or that he almost certainly

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