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Jesus was a real person

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in response to reader comment: Notes to Jose and Baneeskhan

Submitted by Jason (United States), Mar 30, 2006 at 11:22

Akbar said:

"Jesus is the word of God who never had a physical body. There has never been any evidence that a person named Jesus ever existed in physical form."

I think you need to read the works of Josephus and Pliney. They both mention Jesus. They were alive at the time Jesus lived, not seven centuries after the fact like Muhammed.
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