6 Historical Figures That May Not Have Existed | Answers With Joe

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   @rer9287

   August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

   Jesus

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   @modvavet

   August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

   Oh man, now I need to send y'all off to watch Vinland Saga so that you can see a secret fictional descendant of Lucius Artorius Castus

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   @caihowells4001

   August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

   Should have done Muhammad 👀

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   @chefaras

   August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

   Geezus?

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   @OffgridRose

   August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

   Would’ve been interesting to have William Shakespeare here too. Curious why you felt compelled to include Buddha and Jesus on the list, but exclude Mohammed who is a much greater influence than Buddha in terms of number of followers.

   I don’t wish to start a debate here, but just wanted to provide a few resources in case someone wants to do a deeper dive on the evidence for Jesus than your brief and, frankly, superficial and dismissive treatment of the subject provided. People that ascribe to the idea that Jesus didn’t exist are called “Jesus Mythicists” (or “Jesus Mythers”) and no scholars in that field take them seriously. In short, they are the flat-earthers of theology. Many notable modern, skeptical people have tried to disprove the existence of Jesus and even the miraculous claims ascribed to him (including his resurrection), but after thoroughly and honestly investigating the evidence, ended up conceding to the facts and becoming Christian, including criminal investigator J. Warner Wallace, legal journalist Lee Strobel, and ex-Muslim medical student Nabeel Qureshi, to name a very few. Even ex-Christian, famous atheist New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman left Christianity not because of lack of evidence (he also laughs at Jesus Mythers), but because of his perspective on the problem of evil.

   Of course, the most major and controversial miracle attributed to Jesus is the resurrection. As counter-intuitive as it seems, and as easy as it is to dismiss out of hand without thorough examination, there are people like Gary Habermas who have made investigating it their life’s work: that’s how much evidence there is for it. A mysterious artifact that is sometimes included in this evidence (and might even be worth a deep dive of its own) that was, again, set out to be disproven by a skeptic (namely orthodox Jew Barry Schwortz) but ended up becoming the focus of his life’s work, is the Shroud of Turin. New technologies such as wide angle xray scattering have overturned the original carbon dating of 1988 which dated the shroud to the middle ages. I could go on, but i digress 😊

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   @dawglos7643

   August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

   This reminds of Caesar in the new planet of the apes movies

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   @lpmriverin

   August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

   So someone could have written a mega war guide based on the teachings of masters accross their country and used "Sun Tzu" as a way to refer to the masters collective knowledge and we would never know

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   @alwaysluvedtobeluved

   August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

   Ironically before the romans called them Greeks they were known as the Helens after or during the period of Alexander the great.

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   @toddverbeek5113

   August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

   For a long time, the historicity of Troy itself was in question… until its ruins were discovered in 1870s.

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    @amazinggrapes3045

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    wait where's the mythical creature video 😭

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    @parkour267

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    Homer Simpson is real I just saw him last week in universal studios

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    @GuoLi-ix6zb

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    Honorable mention: William Tell (myth),

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    @hi-fidude6670

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    The sumerian kings list is fiction at most before the dynasty of ur and even the existence of many of later kings after the first dynasty of ur is highly questionable. Any reign beyond 75 years is pretty much impossible and even 60 years was basically unheard of for 99% of kings

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    @LalaSaraJones

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    I want mythical creatures now, was it done? if it was anyone can give a link?

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    @evilpandakillabzonattkoccu4879

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    my life will be a story that won't be told….because boring stories are boring

16. 

    @ToolsAreToys

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    woah, Daisy ain't Dunn yet.

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    @evilpatman9288

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    I'm surprised Shakespeare didn't make the list. He is accused of potential being more or less in the same situation as Homer, some think it was a bunch of different writers from the time all using the same pen name. Personally I don't believe either, I think both were real people. But its fun to speculate.

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    @carlhilber2275

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    I just realised how much Charlie from Its always sunny vibes this guy has in his voice, cadence, and appearance

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    @matthewtopping2061

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    Pronouncing annals as "annuals" is tight

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    @DwayneShaw1

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    14:00 – The Christian mythology was plagiarized from several more ancient 'resurrection cults' collectively known as 'The Mysteries' – which was acknowledged very early on by Christians. Justin Martyr, considered the earliest Christian Apologist, said in an open letter to the Roman Emperor, Antoninus (circa 150 CE), – "And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter."

    This is one of the reasons the Church was so adamant about burning books – to destroy the evidence that there was nothing special or novel about the Jesus Myth

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    @ronnybryson3122

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    Maybe Elon Musk went back in time, and that is why The X was added to the name of the sword.

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    @Sloppysage

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    Jesus is the son of God and God is the king of kings the Lord of Lords

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    @CasperTheGhost64

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    That shirt looks like the stupid police flag. You shouldn't wear it

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    @stuartmitchell3739

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    Pretty sure there are many thousands of more note worthy people that have been forgotten almost immediately after they died – this is for them ❤

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    @keithdean9149

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    Jesus did not claim a lineage to God. He stated he is God.

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    @Ben-s4q

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    King Arthur was a real guy, Ambrossius Aurelianus. He may have risen to the rank of a local Latin/briton king in western Britannia, but no one knows for sure

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    @cerealbowl7038

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    14:22 Zeitgeist moment. This just isn't true.

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    @thesalvadorian

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    3:44 he lived longer than that, but became kinda lame after 126th year

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    @marygoround1292

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    Don't tell @TheFatElectrician that Sun Tzu may have not have been a real person

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    @Alwaysgrim

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    History is a mystery.

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    @MegatronYES

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    JESUS TIMES SIX

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    @absolutelyanika

    August 20, 2025 at 5:04 pm

    sun tzu just reminds me of techno:( rip

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