Any Evidence For A Historical Jesus?

[The Grand Nudger]

It's very easy to imagine that there was some person behind the jesus myth, the trouble is that when you remove all of the myth, nothing remains. Whatever or whoever this spark or person was is completely lost. It's just as easy to imagine that there are people behind the Zues, Osiris, or Wotan myths, but what credibility does this lend the stories? None. What else can be said? Nothing. There's really no other way to say this than to be blunt Chip. The Jesus written about in the bible is myth, start to finish, regardless of whether or not there was a rabbi named Yeshua. The miraculous stories of his birth, myth (a Yeshua would require no such thing), his early life and exploits (even what little is written of this) myth, the sermons, the words attributed to, myth. I'm not really sure why this is a problem, or why you would argue against this so strongly, faith requires no evidence. If all one needed was a point of focus for their beliefs the Jesus mentioned in the bible does just fine, but to demand that this story be treated as historical fact, I'm sorry but that's ridiculous. Once upon a time this wasn't so. You've made mention of this yourself, the fact that less educated people believed. Thing is we're well beyond that now. We don't believe in this sort of stuff anymore because it has not only failed to materialize, but what has presented itself is a picture that is utterly and completely devoid of these sorts of things.