# Resolved: Jesus did not exist

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-jesus-did-not-exist/566230>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 3, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-jesus-did-not-exist/566230 "2011-01-03T16:11:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resolved-jesus-did-not-exist/566230/57 "2011-01-05T01:33:16Z")

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I can give you plenty. I’ll do them one at a time. Let’s start with the contradiction in the dating of Jesus’ birth. Why do Matthew and Luke have their nativities ten years apart? Was Jesus born during the reign of Herod the Great or was he born ten years after Herod died during the census of Quirinus? Which is it?

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