Don’t. I do not want to get into another dog chasing it’s tail argument about divinity and God. You probably remember that I am a total non believer. So please don’t. At least not here.

My question is, do you think the guy actually existed in one form or another.

The four gospels were not even written down until a hundred years after the events. Nobody knows who actually wrote them. Most inhabitants of that part of world were illiterate, so it certainly did originate as original writings of the principles. Plus, they were written in Greek, not Aramaic.

The only non biblical references are Tacitus and Josephus. And they too were written well after the fact.

Maybe no one, not even a mortal man, existed as Jesus.

Myself, I think he probably did. I don’t believe in the supernatural at all, but I think a guy probably walked the earth and left his fingerprints all over Western civilization and it was the guy we call Jesus.

So I give him some respect at Christmas.

What do you think?