Who is Jesus?

[KevinM1]

As the w'ist noted, you can create polls on the site.

I think that Jesus (the guy who preached and was crucified for it) may well have existed.

I think that Jesus (the guy who was god in disguise and killed himself in order to blame himself for the bad things we do) is fictional.  And that Christians did indeed make him (the first Jesus I described) into something he wasn't (the second one).

More or less the same for me.

I think there was a person, or several people, may have existed at the time that fit the bill of being a/several prophet(s) in that area of the world.  I think that a cult of personality rose up in the aftermath as their local legend status grew, and, after borrowing liberally from other prophetic stories, they created a fictional Jesus Christ figure from the combination thereof.  It would help explain why the story of the resurrection, perhaps the most important part of the entire Bible, has conflicting accounts in the gospels themselves.  It's my belief that they were referring to different people and circumstances, and everything was mushed together into an ill-fitting amalgamation.