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There is no question that Jesus existed and was crucified. Nobody seriously questions that. If we can't accept that happened then we can't accept most of history. It is one of the best-documented events of history and nobody has any reason or means to make it up.

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Best-documented in history is a bit of a leap. There are the gospels (only three of which are contemporaneous) and a smattering of later writing. There probably was a religious teacher named Jesus that was crucified. But we're nowhere near as sure about that as we are that Caesar Augustus and Tiberius were the Roman emperors over that period.

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