A Christian Response by Stephen J. Bedard
I have had someone ask me a number of questions related to the Jesus Myth Theory. They are fair questions and I want to address them. I want to begin with questions about the virgin birth. Before we tackle specific questions, we need to ask: What do you mean by that? For some mythicists, a … Read More “Mary, Jesus and Other “Virgin Births”” »
Christians don’t just believe that Jesus existed, we believe that Jesus rose from the dead. That means an empty tomb. But is the empty tomb a later addition to the story? R.G. Price in his Case Against Historical Christ suggests so. There is no evidence of any knowledge of a tomb of Jesus (empty or … Read More “Did the Earliest Christians Believe in the Empty Tomb?” »
One of the aspects of the Jesus story that Mythicists target is that of the virgin birth. They spend a lot of time looking for pagan parallels. But what do we mean by the virgin birth? For Christians, a more accurate term would be virginal conception. The point is that Mary became pregnant without any … Read More “What Do We Mean By the Virgin Birth?” »
