Did Jesus exist?

[Brian37]

Some one or a group of people decided to create a new hero, so yes, there was a movement, otherwise Christianity would not exist today. BUT NO, the character as depicted in the bible DID NOT exist as a magical super hero. It is a better explanation that the name was common like John is today, and the character was a result of competing with other hero myths. Jesus simply was the name they gave their mythological hero based on a real movement, not a magical movement with a real god, just a deluded person or deluded group of people. But all of the NT is written way after the fact.

Way after the fact?

How many years after?

AGAIN, you use this as a distraction.

The NT was written after the fact. PERIOD.

And again, even if the NT had been written during the alleged time the bible claims, it still DOES NOT make magic babies real, and nobody survives death as the death myth in the book would intend you to believe. 

We can prove George Washington existed, but the "I cannot tell a lie" legend about the cherry tree is a MYTH. And most certainly nobody I would call sane would claim the real person George Washington was a prophet , or magic man who could fart a modern full sized Lamborghini out of his butt.

Jesus was a name given to a character, based on a real movement, but the name to that character was slapped on a character, after the fact. 

Seriously, this is the same flawed logic that Buddhists use to avoid the fact that Buddhism is nothing more than a spin off of Hinduism. There were Canaanites who got tired of the old polytheism, so they took Yahweh and turned him into their one monotheistic god. In turn later Hebrews decided they wanted their god to come and save them back then, so they created Jesus the Jew as their new religion's hero. 

There would be no point what so ever to keep the old book if you didn't intend on competing with the old ways. 

Religion competes like any similar products compete. Coke creates a cherry soda, Pepsi looks at that and says, "We got to get in on that", so they mimic Coke's product, take the flavor, tweak it to taste slightly different, change the color of the can, and give it a new name.

ANY religion claiming to be original is like claiming "Coke is the only real beverage because it's can is red", missing the fact that water is much older.

Religion does not start in a vacuum. Never has, and never will.