The majority of scholars including secular scholars think he did but there is a small minority of scholars who have arguments that he didn't. And it's a small minority that seems to be growing in the past few years. Just don't listen to the psuedoscholars like "Acharya S." They give the Christ myth theory proponents a bad name.
Some names to look up: Robert M. Price, Richard Carrier, and Earl Doherty. There some more good ones but I can't remember their names.
Some names to look up: Robert M. Price, Richard Carrier, and Earl Doherty. There some more good ones but I can't remember their names.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).