Did Jesus exist at all?

[Aractus]

If he did exist, then obviously he was so minor that either 1. Nothing was written about him when he was alive or 2. Very  little was written about him when he was alive but all those writings are  lost. 

That's not correct, we have exactly the amount written about him we would expect given his influence. Put it this way, most historians think that he probably only went around preaching for a year at most. He was executed by the Romans, probably for disrupting the peace (the incident where he goes to the Temple and overturns tables and makes a lot of noise would have been all the reason the Romans would need to execute him for being a threat to the public peace). Given that to the Romans he was a nobody, and they executed 10's of thousands of people in those years, you would not expect any official record from the Roman authorities. The biggest lie perpetuated is placing the blame for his death on the Jews - there's no way they could have influenced the Roman authorities to carry out executions as depicted in the Bible. This lie came about from the early Christians trying to come to terms with the loss of their leader. Instead of accepting that Jesus had been tried and found guilty by the Romans, a plausible alternative story began being told in which Jesus was betrayed by one of his disciples.