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Zikten posted...

I don't think he ever existed. I'm not convinced. I have this theory that maybe he is based on an amalgamation of several people. Apparently there were a lot of prophets running around Judea then. Possibly a bunch of individuals had their stories mixed up, combined and exaggerated until one legendary figure was invented

You know what baffles me about this? A lot of people staunchly refuse to believe that, at the very least a human being who believed he was the son of God and went around preaching and was named Jesus, actually existed. But if I started to talk about Princeps Ioannes and how he ended up losing all his clothes in a swamp while fleeing; or how the chinese astrologer Bsh mngz proved that the Earth revolved around the sun in 12 A.D. before being executed for hearsay; only a scarce few of you would even question if the people I was talking about existed outside of this context. Yet we have four different, first-hand, accounts in the most printed book of all time which has had centuries for scholars to either disprove Jesus existed or, alternatively, fabricate evidence that he did and, suddenly, a lot of people question if he possibly could have? The simplest solution to me, that makes the least amount of assumptions, is that he really did exist. I'll leave the question as to if he was the Son of God or just a man up to others, but in so far as existing, seems like the logical answer that he did.