Llun o Iesu fel Pantocrator (Brenin y Bydysawd) yn Eglwys y Beddrod Sanctaidd, Jeriwsalem
Iesu o Nasareth (c. 6CC - c. 27), a elwir hefyd Iesu (neu Isa gan Fwslimiaid; Iesu Grist neu Crist gan Gristnogion), yw'r unigolyn canolog mewn Cristnogaeth. Mae'n golygu gwahanol bethau i wahanol bobl:
Mae Cristnogion yn credu mai ef oedd unig Fab Duw. Yn ogystal, mae'r rhan fwyaf ohonynt yn credu mai ef oedd Duw ei hunan, sef ail Berson y Drindod wedi'i ymgnawdoli fel dyn.[1]
Mae'r rhan helaeth o academyddion yn credu mai person go iawn oedd ef.[4][5][6][7][8][note 1] Maent yn ei weld fel athro crefyddol Iddewig ond nid ydynt yn credu bod y gwyrthiau sydd yn gysylltiedig â'i fywyd wedi digwydd.
Mae rhai yn cwestiynu a oedd Iesu Grist yn berson go iawn ac yn meddwl mai ffrwyth dychymyg ei ddisgyblion cynnar oedd ef. Er hyn, damcaniaeth ymylol yw hon nad yw'n cael ei chredu gan braidd dim ysgolheigion.[10][11][12][13]
↑"Who is Jesus? What Do Christians Believe?" Johns Hopkins University. Graduate Christian Fellowship. [1]Archifwyd 2013-03-04 yn y Peiriant Wayback 1 Mai 2013
↑In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship, Bart Ehrman (a secular agnostic) wrote: "He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees" B. Ehrman, 2011 Forged : writing in the name of GodISBN978-0-06-207863-6. p. 285
↑Robert M. Price (an atheist who denies the existence of Jesus) agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price "Jesus at the Vanishing Point" in The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN028106329X p. 61
↑Michael Grant (a classicist) states that "In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary." in Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels by Michael Grant 2004 ISBN1898799881 p. 200
↑Robert M. Price (a Christian atheist) who denies the existence of Jesus agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars: Robert M. Price "Jesus at the Vanishing Point" in The Historical Jesus: Five Views edited by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, 2009 InterVarsity, ISBN0830838686 p. 61
↑Jesus Now and Then by Richard A. Burridge and Graham Gould (April 1, 2004) ISBN0802809774 p. 34