The Historical Reliability of the New Testament

[Wyrd of Gawd]

How could "Jesus" be a historical figure when the name didn't exist until the 16th or 17th Century?  

Peter's Aramaic name was Simon and later Kepha (rock). Later, it became Petros (Greek for rock) and finally Peter in English. Pierre in French, I think.

Mary was probably Miriam in Aramaic.

Jesus' name was Yeshua in Aramaic...which eventually became Jesus in modern English.

Is that your PRIMARY reason for rejecting Christianity?

It's a BS religion based off of some identical ideas found in Zoroastrianism, Hindu, Greek, and other ancient religions.   Some of the major characters have more aliases than a gang of bank robbers have.  BTW, there was no real reason to have changed the characters' names other than for the writers to show that the story was a fraud.  A lot of the minor characters seem to have retained their original names without any ill effect.  It's like renaming George Washington "Virginia Hillbilly".  Why would a sane person change the name of the "son of God" unless it was to make a mockery of him?  Didn't they think that 17th Century dummies wouldn't like "Yeshua"?