‘Tis the season for many things. Candy canes and Christmas trees. Family from afar and fires in the hearth. And headlines that question whether the subject of our celebration existed. “Did historical Jesus really exist?” The Washington Post asked a week before Christmas 2014.

Even unbelieving secular historians say “Yes.” New Testament historian Bart Ehrman identifies himself as “an agnostic with atheistic leanings.” He writes: “We know that Jesus did exist, as virtually every scholar of antiquity, of biblical studies, of classics, and of Christian origins in this country and, in fact, in the Western world agrees.” He is wrong on many other matters of history and faith, but he has the integrity to acknowledge the truth that Jesus was real..

Today’s Secular Historians

Why do secular historians say this? Because they have a resource universally recognized as having strong historic validity. What is that? Maybe not what you were expecting. It’s the four Gospel accounts of Jesus’s ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection.

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