Did Jesus Christ exist as a historical human or was he a theological construct?

[Eilonnwy]

Flyingfree, I would add that Paul, who is the only writer between the claimed time of Jesus's life and the first Gospel, talked about Jesus as a heavenly being and not as a living being. This sways my opinion that the Jesus story was a religious myth that eventually became something people believed happened.

In any case, there is no contemporary evidence for the existence of Jesus. Even if there was contemporary evidence that this man existed, it's insufficient to claim that Jesus did the miraculous events he is said to have done. I don't stake my atheism on whether Jesus specifically existed or not, though I think he did not. If the stories are proven to be based on a man, they still do not prove the gospels true.