One question for Christians

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So? That does not prove he’s a myth.

We have to be able to tell myth from reality and be able to use some criteria in which to judge it though. How would we know Jack and Beanstalk isn't a real story? The general criteria is if therte is anything funny and supernatural going on then that part of the story at least isn't real. It works out very nicely on the Iliad so why can't we apply the same method to the Bible and the gospels? When God Brimstoned Sodom and Gomorrah and turned Lots wife into a pillar of salt that could have been a volcano for instance. We've got all this in the bag.

So apparently if you agree with what the historical figure claimed then you also believe that he existed and if you disagree with what he claimed then he conveniently never existed? That’s not how we do scholarship. Whether you like Jesus or not is irrelevant, his existence is a historical certainty.

He could happily have existed as a normal man without any supernatural powers at all. Perhaps he believed he had some but that's not the same thing as having them and his followers could easily have beefed him up a little. They told stories of the miraculous powers of the divine Roman Emperors for instance and people took all that business seriously at the time.