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Originally Posted by bizaro86
Aside from numerous written accounts from his followers (whose mere existence is pretty good evidence for his life having occured) there are also non-Christian historical texts that reference his life. I don't want to stray in Textcritics domain here, but Josephus is one example.
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None of those accounts were contemporaneous to the life of Jesus, and are poor evidence. I think Textcritic would say there is other circumstantial evidence that is better, and leads some to conclude that the existence of a historical Jesus (although not certain) is very probable?