Do You Believe in Caesar?

Caesar documented his personal exploits in approximately 100 BC.  The oldest available copies of those manuscripts date to about 1,000 AD.  An entire millennium elapsed between Caesar’s original writings and the oldest existing copy of his manuscripts.  Only ten copies of these manuscripts survive. Absolutely no one doubts the existence of Caesar.

Plato wrote in about 400 BC.  The oldest copy we have of his writing dates to 900 AD.  Only seven copies of Plato’s manuscripts survive.  Yet, no one doubts the existence of Plato.

Accounts of the life of Jesus were written shortly after his crucifixion.  The earliest existing copies of those manuscripts date to as few as 200 years after His lifetime.  Five thousand of these manuscripts survive.  It is inconceivable that many people still question the very existence Jesus and His mission.

I am amazed at the bias against the life changing, and live giving, story of Christianity.