JESUS CHRIST: Myth or Historical Person?

[Regens Küchl]

Not to mention that "Christ" was not the name of one, but the title of many self-appointed messiahs

List of messiah claimants back then
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_messiah_claimants

And even today
This is a list of modern people who have convinced themselves and others that through divine revelation they have been chosen to be the messiah, saviour, teacher or leader for all humanity. In no particular order…
http://listverse.com/2008/06/08/top-10-s...-messiahs/

There is no doubt that Christians existed, from the early years of the second century certainly, and – as heretical Jews and under diverse names – up to a generation earlier. Belief in a Messiah (a 'Christ' in Greek) was endemic among the Jews after all.

But belief in a celestial Christ does not equate to belief in a flesh-and-blood 'Jesus of Nazareth' – and when the 'heretical' and 'gnostic' views of early Christians are examined 'Jesus of Nazareth' is noticeably absent. And to press the point, even a belief in a 'Jesus of Nazareth' does not make him a reality – it is only the belief that is a reality.

None abashed, Christian apologists compound their suspect 'logic' by recruiting notable pagans as witnesses, writers who were doing their best to faithfully report on a suspect cult. And as ever in the history of Christianity, in the hands of its scribes, forgery augments what the ancient writers actually wrote, the better to bring unbelievers to the One True Faith.
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/josephus-etal.html

Was there a Jesus? Of course there was a Jesus – many!
A Surfeit of Jesuses!

– But No "Jesus of Nazareth"
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/surfeit.htm