To Atheists: Who, in your opinion, was Jesus Christ?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Hoo boy.  You sure have swallowed a lot of misinformation.

I think that, given the available evidence, it is impossible to know who or what Jesus Christ was.  That being the case, we likely must look to guides outside the evidence to decide what to believe.

Then IMHO you have not truly examined the evidence. Personally on AF, I myself do not engage in discussions about historical accuracy because I go, generally, with the scholarly concensus, that Jesus was cruxified by Pontious Pilate and that the disciples believed they witnessed him alive after 3 days. It is perhaps the most thoughouly documented ancient biographical accounts created within living memory of the reported events. Those are just basic facts. People who think Jesus was a mythological creation are ignorant beyond words.

Really? More thoroughly documented than the life of Julius Caesar or Xenophon? More than Phillip or Alexander of Macedon? More than Cattalus, Lucian, Ptolemy…

‘Ignorant beyond words’ indeed.

Boru