Why does my history teacher speak of Jesus like he's a real person?

Your History teacher knows a bit more about History than you do.

People accept what Greeks and pro-Greeks wrote about Greeks,

People accept what Romans and pro-Romans wrote about Romans,

But people refuse to accept what Christians and pro-Christians wrote about Christians?

Luckily there is an abundance of anti-Christians who wrote about Christ.

One example, the (Pagan) Roman historian and senator Tacitus referred to Jesus Christ, His execution by Pontius Pilate and the persecution of early Christians in Rome in his 109 AD work, "The Annals,"

"Consequently, to get rid of the report (that Nero started the great fire of Rome), Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judaea, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind. Mockery of every sort was added to their deaths. Covered with the skins of beasts, they were torn by dogs and perished, or were nailed to crosses, or were doomed to the flames and burnt, to serve as a nightly illumination, when daylight had expired."

Book 15, chapter 44 of "The Annals" by Tacitus, translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.11.xv.html

See also Magis Online Encyclopedia of Reason and Faith (Why Believe in Jesus?) http://magischristwiki.org/index.php?title=Why_Bel...

With love in Christ.

Most likely he existed but I don't believe he was the son of god or anything like that. By the way, he is not documented in any historical books at all except the bible for the people here that are claiming he was. He was only referred to by two historians but very briefly, they spoke of a Messiah but no one is really sure they were referring to Jesus. You are right, the evidence for the existence of Jesus is for all practical purposes non existent.

What about non-Biblical references to Jesus Christ? How are they assessed? The works of Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus, Pliny the Younger, and a few other classical writers include numerous references to Jesus. Of them, The New Encyclopædia Britannica (1995) says: “These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the first time and on inadequate grounds at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.”

http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2001921

a real prophet despatched by making use of G-d will by no potential pontificate a message opposite to even between the Torah's precepts. If somebody claiming Divine proposal, the Torah demands that this so-called prophet coach himself. In easy of this, Jesus and Paul did some quite heinous issues of their lifetimes. They thoroughly vilified people who detrimental their theologies, against the regulation from which stems 2 thousand years of Christian anti-Semitism. They did each thing that a pretend prophet ought to do to loudly scream that he replaced into fake. Chapters 13 and 18 of Deuteronomy needless to say define fake prophets, and Jesus and Paul are the residing incarnations of that definition.

Most people think that Jesus Christ really existed, despite the fact that the evidence shows that he's is just a mythical character and never existed. Perhaps you could help educate him.

Except for the bible.

Perhaps the Shroud of Turin

There are even non Christian sources that say Jesus existed like Josephus

Maybe you should actually ask your teacher why he says what he says. There are actual reasons why most non-theistic historians lean towards the notion that there was some kind of historical Jesus.

Oh, unless you're just looking for a bunch of people to reinforce your existing assumptions...

Ask your teacher to provide anything from Roman historians of the era on that mythical character.

Nonsense, Jesus was the most documented character of the 1st century.

There's tons of evidence. You just reject it all.

Your teacher sees Jesus as real, and billions of others do too.