I lean heavily into the mythicist camp. In fact, after listening to scads of believers talk about the historical jesus I am not sure that any of them know what they mean by the term.
If you have to invent "miracles" for your god to perform - hopefully you don't really believe in miracles - then who needs him? You are worshiping the magic tricks not the man and given the way xtians behave they certainly do not respect his alleged "teachings."
Could there have been a man named Y'shua bar Yosef? Sure. The names were so common there could have been 100 of them in first century Jerusalem. So what? Unless you can find one who came back from the dead - and no one living at the time knows anything about that - then it hardly matters.
If you have to invent "miracles" for your god to perform - hopefully you don't really believe in miracles - then who needs him? You are worshiping the magic tricks not the man and given the way xtians behave they certainly do not respect his alleged "teachings."
Could there have been a man named Y'shua bar Yosef? Sure. The names were so common there could have been 100 of them in first century Jerusalem. So what? Unless you can find one who came back from the dead - and no one living at the time knows anything about that - then it hardly matters.
