Galatians 4:4
But when the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of woman, born under the law.
It is not uncommon to hear some skeptic declare of Christ that He is “really” just a mythic figure like Krishna or Osiris. The problem with this thesis is that these upstanding members of the mythology of antiquity lived no one knows where or when, while Jesus was born in the gritty world of Roman occupied Palestine during the reign of Augustus Caesar and executed on a wooden cross by a Roman bureaucrat whose tenure can be roughly dated. Further, the documents describing His life were written within living memory of a great number of eyewitnesses. Thus, Paul tells the Corinthians that if they have doubts about the resurrection, they should ask the 500 witnesses who are still walking around Palestine. It’s like a modern writer saying “God became man during the presidency of Herbert Hoover in Pittburgh, Pennsylvania, and was executed by Governor George Wallace during the early days of the Kennedy Administration in Savannah, Georgia. We saw it happen with our own eyes. And a lot of people remember the things He did. Ask them.” Whatever else that is, it’s not a myth located in Cloud Cuckoo Land. It’s located squarely in human history. That’s why only skeptical cranks, not real historians, doubt the historicity of Jesus Christ.
