Theories about Jesus?

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I do consider there to be a small possibility that a real historical figure named Jesus actually existed. However, such a person would have only been loosely based on the person that has now been built up and glorified. However, I find it much more likely that he never actually existed.

In fact, there is compelling evidence that even the earliest Christians did not believe in an actual living person called Jesus, but rather they believed in a spirit force of some sort. However, when Rome took over Christianity, all of that changed. Rome had no interest is something they couldn't put a face on, so they declared the earliest Christian views to be a heresy and then took measures to destroy everything about them.

Are you talking about Constantine and what followed from his time? I'd have to disagree, as the earliest fragments of NT are dated to be from the 2nd century, but Christianity was embraced by Rome in the *4th* century. Therefore evidence of some vague guy by the name of Jesus would be an original idea by the early Christians.