I put a HJ at slightly over 50%, supported largely by internal evidence of the Gospels consistent with trying to shoehorn a real person (probably a former disciple of John the Baptist) into the role of Christ. However, if this Yeshua person existed and their teachings at least partly inspired Christianity, he's been so mythologized that trying to tease the real from the made-up or misattributed is almost pointless. It's impossible to say what words belonged to the man and what words were put in his mouth after he died.
As a matter of preference and charity, I attribute the stuff I like and which isn't obviously a later insertion to HJ and the stuff I don't like to writers using his persona for their own agenda. Presuming he wasn't bipolar or something.
However, I put it over 40% that he started as a myth considered a spirit being such as Paul claimed to have encountered that was later taken too literally by the Gospel writers.
Percentages just my guesstimates. I'm not a biblical scholar.
As a matter of preference and charity, I attribute the stuff I like and which isn't obviously a later insertion to HJ and the stuff I don't like to writers using his persona for their own agenda. Presuming he wasn't bipolar or something.
However, I put it over 40% that he started as a myth considered a spirit being such as Paul claimed to have encountered that was later taken too literally by the Gospel writers.
Percentages just my guesstimates. I'm not a biblical scholar.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
