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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If Jesus were completely a fabricated individual, I would expect that Jews in particular would have and would still vocally denounce Jesus as a non-historical figure. The fact that the Jews deny his divinity but not his existence during this time doesn't seem to support this. The idea that some person in a highly religious region in an era of superstition would declare themselves divine, and acquire a following that made up mythical stories to glorify them doesn't seem even remotely implausible given human history

[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Loads of people did it.

But there's still not one historical Jesus you can pin down.