Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior

[JWeinCom]

palou said:

JWeinCom said:

There's no reason a person like Jesus couldn't exist (without the supernatural baggage).  I'm sure that today you can find people claiming to be the son of god or something like that.  But there is a big difference between something making sense, and something actually being confirmed.  

Considering the importance some people wish us to place on this figure, there needs to be something better than, "a guy like this could've existed".

Well, Christianity *did* take form at the time, I think there's really no good reason to doubt that there was an occurrence at least somewhat similar to the described by the earlier followers (and the earliest historians describing the events, the execution, specifically, was referenced in works 50-100 years after, in a timeframe where oral tradition still has some credibility.). That seems like the most likely origin for a religion. 

Of course there is a good reason to doubt it.  That reason being a lack of evidence to confirm it.