DEBATE: THE HISTORICITY OF JESUS – A REAL PERSON OR NONEXISTENT? WALTER MARTIN VS MADALYN O’HAIR

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Did Jesus Christ really exist on planet earth as a real, living, breathing person just like any other actual person or is he a complete fable much like Zeus or Athena, a myth that never existed at all? In a clip from a 1968 radio debate out of New York City, Walter Martin, founder of the Christian Research institute & author of the classic book, “The Kingdom of the Cults” debates world famous atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair of the American Atheist Center located in Austin, Texas. O’Hair argues that Jesus Christ never existed at all & wasn’t worthy to “lick her boots” while Martin takes the position that Jesus Christ actually existed as a real human being & history can verify this. According to Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia: “The historicity of Jesus concerns how much of what is written about Jesus of Nazareth is historically reliable. The historicity of Jesus covers a spectrum of ideas that range from “the gospels are inerrant descriptions of the life of Jesus”[1] to “the gospels provide no historical information about Jesus’ life including his very existence”.[2][3][4][5][6] The majority of biblical scholars who study Early Christianity believe that the Gospels do contain some reliable information about Jesus,[7][8][9] agreeing that Jesus was a Jew who was regarded as a teacher and healer, that he was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on the orders of the Roman Prefect of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, on the charge of sedition against the