Did Jesus Christ exist as a historical human or was he a theological construct?

[Rev. Rye]

Well, the contents of the extrabiblical evidence for the existence of Jesus (assuming that all of it is reliable) seems to be limited to statements that he was a teacher who may or may not have been executed for his teachings (none of these sources even remotely mention what his teachings actually are.) This seems plausible. However, there is no evidence whatsoever for a Jesus who walked on water or came back to life from the dead. Simply put, something like that, especially the resurrection, seems like it would have been mentioned outside of the New Testament. Surely something like the Resurrection would have made it into allusions by pre-Christian Roman writers (maybe even Petronius), but the fact that we have only the Gospels to go on makes me inclined to disbelieve. I'm heavily inclined to believe that Jesus was a real rabbi who had the myths of previous times thrust upon him.