Hello Jew,
The choice of your name, three letters J-e-w, has made a solid impact on me, more so than the names of any other posters.
I have read the some 60 replies to your question: ?is there any proof of the promised Messiah being Jesus of Nazareth and if so, how can you be sure if he existed??
To answer your question, do I add to the replies already made, with more scriptures, more references, arguments, or archeology ?
What do I have at hand, right in the immediate now, to reply with? I have the pages of a book with me, translated through the centuries, with many people spending their whole lives to its promulgation and even losing their lives in process.
In this book I read, that a man called Jesus of Nazareth, summed up his teachings with the words: ?You shall love the one God, with all your heart, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.? I read that he said to love your enemies. I read also that he went about the land and healed the blind, the deaf , the cripples, the sick, the downtrodden and discouraged. The general opinion of that time was that these people were cursed by God and their disabilities were evidence that they merited his displeasure. Jesus stood them up on their feet. After three and a half years he was killed for his efforts.
It is written that he also spoke these words ? You search the Scriptures because you believe they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!?
To answer your question for proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed without dragging in endless scriptures, so-called holy or otherwise, let me change the question a little.
?is there any proof of the promised Messiah being Jesus of Nazareth and if so how can you be sure he exists??
If this man, Jesus of Nazareth cannot be found existing today, whether within humanity or through a manifestation of his teachings then it would be futile to prove he existed 20 centuries ago.I have lived for seventy years plus through the turbulent times of modern history. One of the most distressing , sorrowful inhumanities to man is the extermination of some six million Jews within the nations who claim Jesus Christ as their king. I am ashamed of my own country?s record during that period, because the then prime minister refused to grant asylum to the victims of the atrocity. I am also ashamed that the religious organization that I later became a part of considered these people as cursed by God and as food for carrion birds.
So the question is: Does Jesus of Nazareth exist today?!
To answer this question, let me lead your attention to your own back yard.
Let me lead you as well as other readers of these posts to The Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations.
http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/righteous/index_righteous.html
Yad Vashem is a Jewish Memorial established in Israel, commemorating some 20,000 people, gentiles, non-jews, who risked their lives to deliver thousands of victims from horrific death. Trees are planted along this avenue to commemorate their righteousness.
One of the foremost names is that of Raoul Wallenberg, a swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Jews in Budapest from extermination, by issuing them Swedish papers and sheltering them in Swedish diplomatic premises. After the war, he spent the remaining days of his life in solitary confinement in Russian prisons.
http://www.raoul-wallenberg.org.ar/english/heroesintumba.htm
The righteousness of Jesus of Nazareth continues to exist down to our day despite the continual unrelenting forces of opposers determined to extinguish the flames of love and courage that exist in the human heart.
belbab