So what if people believe he existed or not? To me, wouldn't it be more important that a person displayed the qualities that Jesus and OTHERS lived by? Does someone HAVE to BELIEVE in Jesus to be kind and loving and enlightened? According to Christians YES! And so many times in these discussions we are missing the main point: The Church and Jesus are Separate!! Christians have a hard time separating the two. If you do believe in Jesus why on earth would you want to associate him with the Church! And for those of you who say "Christ-mythes" have to lie and "pad" their arguments with lies, CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN DOING THAT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE CHURCH! The whole thing is based on lies and control and "picking and choosing"! I think if it's that important for you people to call yourselves "Christians" and you want people to take you seriously and if you want people to "turn to Christ" and live the type of person he was, then you better separate yourself from the Church because you do nothing to bring out the type of person Jesus was when you associate him with the Church, a thing he wouldn't want either!! The truth is, you don't have to call yourself ANYTHING to live a life and concept that Jesus lived whether you believe he existed or not. And the truth is is there were others like him before him and after that lived the same type of life.
And I've seen a lot of disproving information on why he isn't just a pagan character, but where's the solid proof outside of the Bible of who he really was then? Why is a man who performed miracles, raised the dead for goodness sake, cured the sick, healed the blind and deaf, not written about more extensively? There are smaller subjects in history that are very detailed, why not this man?