Quote: I need to do more study into the Historicity of Jesus.
I'll say. I'll sum it up for you. Your godboy exists only in the pages of your bible, or, in books which were too embarrassing even for early church leaders to accept into the canon. Not a single Greco-Roman-Jewish writer from the first half of the first century makes the slightest reference to him. Later xtians, embarrassed by this glaring gap, tried to write him into Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews. Bishop William Warburton, who died in 1779, said of the Testimonium Flavianum: "a rank forgery, and a very stupid one, too." A second history written by a contemporary of Josephus, Justin of Tiberias, was dismissed by the Church leader Photius because Justin "did not know Christ." This is odd because Tiberias is in Galilee which would have made "jesus" (had he existed) a countryman of Justin. As a result of Photius' dismissal, Justin's work was not preserved by xtian scribes who had an obvious agenda to advance the church and cared fuck all about anything else.
So about all you can do is point to the writings of believers and use one to back up another. You should read Jesus Interrupted by Bart Ehrman and find out how many holes have been poked into this line of "reasoning."
