Reason Jesus must have been a real person

[Angrboda]

If Jesus was just a historical person, and not the resurrected miracle worker who healed the sick and walked on water, then he is no different than any other historical first century Jewish preacher. I don't worship those other men as God because they are unremarkable, and neither should Christians. Christians justify their worship with respect to the miracle man, not to him being an ordinary Judean. If Christians want to worship Jesus as an ordinary man, then they're welcome to do so. Christians don't care, ultimately, if Jesus was an ordinary man because they no more consider worshiping an ordinary man sensible than I do. So Christian claims that we have reason to believe that a historical Jesus existed are essentially in bad faith as they don't care about the historicity of an ordinary man any more than I do. That's not the Jesus they worship nor one that they would worship if he were that. They only care about him being based on a real person in as much as it supports their claim that the extraordinary man existed. Thus the issue of the historicity of Jesus is just a way to get to the conclusion that Jesus the miracle man existed. They don't care about any of the first century Jewish preachers insofar as they are just that. So the whole issue is nothing but a stalking horse for the larger claim.