Introduction

Face book has been an exciting way to communicate and get to know new people. During the course of using Face book, I had the opportunity to strike up a conversation with friends holding differing religious views; including one in particular that the Jesus we know from Christianity is a mythical figure. Although there were a lot of questions and points made, there were a few key points that I wanted to take the opportunity to investigate and reply to in depth. These points are as follows:

• Jesus is a re-factored myth of Horus. 
• Jesus is a Jewish myth constructed from Paul's mysticism and is an allegorical response to the destruction of the temple. 
• Josephus is a forgery.  
• Various attacks on historical reliability of the New Testament record. 
• Finally, I will summarize and provide several historically verifiable facts which make a belief in Jesus not only reasonable but compelling.

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