Did Jesus exist?

[Regina]

The truth is no one really knows if he existed or not. Like Dorothy in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Jesus could have been the name of someone the writers knew and they used it because it sounded good and/or was a tribute to that person.

But it still doesn't make the slightest bit of difference if there was a historical Jesus or not.  We all know that J.K. Rowling based Professor Snape on a real teacher she had named John Nettleship.  That doesn't mean that Professor Snape, the guy who swung a wand and cast spells, was real.  Even if there was some itinerant preacher named Jehoshua running around first century Jerusalem, that means fuck all to justifying the Biblical magic man.

Exactly.

Even if he was real, his story has become so contorted and exaggerated that it lacks credence treating the whole thing, as the Bible puts it, as historical fact. We know there wasn't a man who walked on water or fed 5000 people with a loaf of bread. That much is obvious because it's impossible. There might have even been several pseudo-Jesuses running around The Levant in that time period, who all served as inspiration for the writers, but that still doesn't give the Bible any more credibility for what it claims.