Did Jesus exist?

[GrandizerII]

The updated list, for parsimony....lol.

-Deliberate Scam
-Unknown Reasons
-Part of Tradition
-Belief of Author
-It really happened.

Ok, I'll go quickly through the list, and then I'm done for tonight.

Deliberate scam: Not a better explanation because it doesn't, for example, satisfactorily account for why the authors would actually try to "correct" the embarrassments. And the whole intentionality of including embarrassments out of nothing just to confuse people sounds a bit too convoluted, and without evidence for such intentionality, this doesn't bode well as an explanation over all.

Unknown reasons: Is not even an explanation. It's just pretty much agnosticism. Fine, if you don't know, you don't know. But experts can, and do know things that laymen like you and I may not know.

Part of Tradition: And? Where does the tradition come from? Why is it part of tradition if it is such a theological embarrassment? That's what I meant earlier by this explanation not being satisfactorily complete. We know it's part of tradition ... so?

Belief of Author: Again, so what? Same as the previous one.