When Jesus left no writings then what does that say or what might it mean?
If Jesus had really been a new messenger from God, had he really been the Son
of God, some writings of his would have been left behind. He left nothing at
all. There are no writings attributed to Jesus. There are no archaeological
artefacts. It is impossible to believe that God would have done nothing to make
sure that some direct evidence to Jesus existed. All we have is hearsay. Hearsay
isn’t always wrong but it is not very convincing. God didn’t ensure that any
direct evidence for Jesus survived therefore God doesn’t care if we doubt or
even disbelieve the existence of Jesus.
What is even more incredible and impossible to explain is this. Why did
everybody forge writings and traditions in the name of the apostles and some
other New Testament characters, but not Jesus himself? Even Gnostics never
attributed any of their books to Jesus but to his apostles or some other
disciple of Jesus. And Gnostics often believed that Jesus was a vision seeming
to be a man not a man and sought direct revelation from him. Yet they came up
with no book claiming to be the direct word of Jesus or even to be something
that Jesus had written. If Gnostic and orthodox Christians believed in Jesus as
someone who had been on earth, they certainly did not believe that there was any
sensible reason for thinking he had been. They had their reasons yes. But these
reasons had nothing to do with the kind of evidence a detective or historian or
archaeologist would consider.