(August 31, 2014 at 8:51 pm)professor Wrote: Dawsonite (is that better?)
Jesus is ruthless about truth, which is the reason he seems hateful to you.
Anyone who says about himself that he is the way the TRUTH and the life -either IS or is crazy.
I don't want to derail the OP though, just wanted to answer you.
No, Jesus is likely a fictional being, or, at best, an amalgam of figures from that time given supernatural characteristics.
Dying to live, living to die.