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Dec 2021
14m 11s

The Historical Reality of Jesus

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, a couple years ago, there was a poll conducted in Great Britain that revealed that the majority of people there feel that Jesus was not a real, historical figure, but rather more of a mythic character. There are all kinds of spiritual systems that trade in mythic language bearing spiritual truths—but that’s not what Christianity is. 
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