Essay: The Bible says that Jesus of Nazareth was a teacher who used miracles to help people. In reality, he was a wandering man whose simple tips and healing remedies were mistaken for miracles. He traveled throughout Judea preaching the validity of Jewish laws. This gained him a large following. The Roman authorities got wind of this and were afraid of an uprising. So they had him executed; however, it had the opposite effect. The Jewish sect that followed Jesus was pacified for a time, but re-emerged in the form of Christianity, with greater numbers of followers than before. Ultimately, and ironically, he ended up surviving the Roman Empire.Thesis: The historical Jesus was a Galilean man who lived in the first century CE and gained fame through chicanery and trickery, which made him the basis of modern Christianity.P1: Secular Evidence: Jesus was a traveling teacher in Judea who gathered many followers. The Roman historian Tacitus (56 AD – 176 AD) was a well-known skeptic who constantly criticized Christianity. He studied the historicity of Jesus Christ and came to the conclusion that he was a real man. “Christus, the founder of the [Christian] name, was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea...through Judea, whence evil originated. » This quote, taken from the works of Tacitus, appears in all known copies, minimizing the idea of ​​falsification by Christians. From this quote we can discern that Jesus was a Jew who wandered into Judea preaching. This attracted the attention of Roman officials. Lucian of Samosata (120 - ~180 AD). He wrote "Christians... still worship today a man - ... who introduced their ...... middle of paper ........ through the use of incantations. Celsus says that Jesus learned tricks and skills in Egypt that would have seemed foreign to the people of Judea, who would then have interpreted his skills as magic, miracles or even witchcraft, which he was also accused of in his writings . deals with the idea of ​​a virgin birth. It says that Mary was "cast out by her husband...after being found guilty of adultery [with a Roman soldier]." this explains why she would claim to be a virgin and how one might have thought that Jesus had no father. Celsus also explains that Jesus was real, because Christians would never make up the story of Jesus' baptism by John the Baptist. that John the Baptist was Jewish and would have absolved a sinless man of his sins. Both of these contradict the ideology of the Church, making it unlikely that they are fabricating this story..