Jesus Christ - Fact or Fiction? - E Michael Heiss - September 1974

E Michael Heiss

JESUS CHRIST is the central figure and focal point of all Christianity. But some doubt He ever lived. They consider the New Testament prejudiced or unreliable and claim there is no other proof that Jesus actually walked this earth some 1900 years ago. But their skeptical opinions are unfounded. There is ample evidence - apart from the Bible itself - that Jesus lived in the land of Judaea in the early first century A.D. For example, Justin Martyr, a leading church father in the second century A.D., wrote the following: "Now there is a village in the land of the Jews, thirty-five stadia from Jerusalem, in which Christ was born, as you can ascertain also from the registries of the taxing under Cyrenius your first procurator in Judaea" (First Apology, chapter 34). Justin appeals to the public records extant in his day in demonstrating that Jesus was born in Judaea. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library