Shayler has an original way of proving the historicity of Jesus.
The position, then, that there is not a single saying of Jesus in the gospels which is quoted by Paul in his many epistles is unassailable, and certainly fatal to the historicity of the gospel Jesus.
Let us hear what he has to say on the historicity of Jesus.
Is there any evidence strong enough to prove thehistoricity of Jesus, in spite of the fact that not even his supposed companions, writing during the lifetime of Jesus' mother, have any definite information to give.
Their complete silence is damaging beyond help to the historicity of Tell.
Titles are words, and we do not speak of the historicity or the non-historicity of words.
Will not some believer tell us why forgery and fraud were necessary to prove the historicity of Jesus.
This is a most decisive argument against the historicity of Jesus.
Not one of the Christian Fathers in his controversy with the unbelievers has quoted the passage from Tacitus, which passage is the church's strongest proof of the historicity of Jesus, outside the gospels.
If this point could be made clear, there will be less reluctance on the part of the public to listen to the evidence on the un-historicity of the founder of Christianity.
This admission is in answer to the charge that even in the first centuries the Christians were compelled to resort to forgery to prove the historicity of Jesus.
The Christians rely mainly on the four Gospels for the historicity of Jesus.
The practical result of such a conclusion is likely to be a gain for the historicity of the Scripture narratives in the estimate of a large class of thoughtful minds.
We shall not permit any critical arguer to confine us to the question of the historicity of Job himself.
We moreover regard the testimony of Christ and the apostles as conclusive with regard to the historicity of the account in Genesis.
Only when the value of the truth of the teaching depends upon the historicity of the alleged fact, does it become impossible to use myth or fiction for the purpose of teaching.
Anything might have happened in the eerie days of old; the critic must do more than deny the historicity of Jesus and the inspiration of the Bible.
If the evidence proves the historicity of Jesus, well and good; if the evidence is not sufficient to prove it, there is no reason why we should fear to say so; besides, it is our duty to inform ourselves on this question.
If there was ample evidence for the historicity of Jesus, why did his biographers resort to forgery?
As early as John's time, if he is the writer of the epistle, Jesus' historicity was questioned.
Those who have decided to abandon the supernatural reduce the claim, of course, to the historicity of the Trial and Crucifixion; but as to these they confidently repeat the old formulas.
For a free historical student there can be no primary question of how the dating of the epistles will affect the problem of the historicity of Jesus: the problem is to be scientifically solved on its merits.
This, however, seems inevitably to follow from his position, though it appears to suggest to him no difficulty about the general historicity of the Gospel story, which he too takes for granted.
That civilized scholars credit, and might at a pinch maintain in debate, the historicity of the Gospel Jesus as calmly as they might the historicity of Lycurgus against its impugners, I am well aware.
In the name of the historicity claim, they have gone on eliminating one by one myth elements where the myth-theorists had been content to recognize myth in mass.
Loisy fails to come within sight of historicity in the one case as in the other.
The non-historicity of the entire action is as plain as in the case of any episode in the Gospels.
Only in his old age did Strauss himself realize to what philosophical conclusions his critical method led; and on the historicity question he seems to have made no serious advance at all.
Like the similarly infuriated semi-rational defenders of the historicity of Jesus in our own day, he merely "followed the tactic of exposing the lack of scientific knowledge and theological learning" of the innovating writer.
Many scholars who continue to hold by the historicity of Jesus have since recognized that the Sermon is no real discourse, but a compilation of gnomic sayings or maxims previously current in Jewish literature.
Holding as he did to the authenticity and historicity of the fourth gospel, he cannot be said to have gone very deep; but two generations were to pass before the specialists got any further.
The latter thinker himself counted for a measure of rationalism, though he argued for theism, and undertook to make good the historicity of Jesus against those who challenged it.
The battleground is now removed to the problem of the historicity of the ostensible origins of the cult; and scholarly orthodoxy takes for granted many positions which fifty years ago were typical of "German rationalism.
Law, sociality, and like terms, are to be dealt with in a mode analogous to that employed by us in the consideration of historicity and technique.
The principle of authority, of the ipse dixit, is an invasion of historicity into the domains of science and philosophy which has raged in the schools.
Historicity is distinguished in the concrete from pure imagination only as one intuition is distinguished from another: in the memory.
It is always in danger of giving way to radical denial either of the historicity of Jesus or of the historicity of the Messianic consciousness.
According to Bousset, the historicity of Jesus is to be maintained; Jesus was really a religious teacher of incomparable power.
Smith and Drews in denying the historicity of Jesus.
Such considerations have led a great number of investigators to reject the historicity of the famine visit; there never could have been, they insist, a visit between the first visit and the visit of Gal.
But the radical denials of the historicity of Jesus are not without interest.
The essential historicity of the crucifixion of Jesus under Pontius Pilate and of the rise of the belief in His resurrection among His intimate friends stands too firm to be shaken by any theory of dependence upon pagan myth.
The New Testament throughout, no matter what view may be held as to the historicity of the individual narratives, is quite inexplicable unless the Jews both in Palestine and in the Dispersion had a doctrine of "the Christ.
Our Lord further certifies to the historicity of the book of Jonah by his reference to the great prophet's preaching.
The historicity of the facts reported in the Bible was called in question; recently the historicity of Jesus has been denied; and where his existence was admitted, still his teaching was criticised.
But it was not safe to give up the idea of historicity altogether.
But we are not dependent on books for our evidence of the historicity of Jesus.
We may, then, without prejudice, take the evidence of Paul of Tarsus on the historicity of Jesus, and examine it.
Kosters has had many followers and many adverse critics, but opinion inclines to accept the substantial historicity of the account of the Return.
Surely, common sense says that facts proving the historicity of an early king of Egypt do not necessarily prove the historicity of men living many centuries later.
The finding of images of deities has been interpreted as showing beyond a possibility of question the historicity of the narrative in Daniel concerning the image erected by Nebuchadrezzar, etc.
The Objections against a Denial of the Historicity of the Synoptic Jesus 235 c.
The Objections against a Denial of the Historicity of the Synoptic Jesus.
But that strongly tends to confirm the historicity of this tradition, and throws the burden of proof upon those who deny it.
No more complete refutation of the Marcan hypothesis could possibly be given than this analysis, for it destroys its very foundation, the confident acceptance of the historicity of the Marcan plan.
Gunkel thought that it was possible to translate Bar-Nasha simply by "man," and nevertheless hold to the historicity of the expression as a self-designation of Jesus.
In the end this supplementary knowledge destroys the historicity of the simplest sections.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "historicity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: actuality; authenticity; fact; historicity; reality; truth; veracity; verity
