Reply #5: Why wouldn't he have existed? [View All]

Sorry, don't mean to be fresh, but I've seen those sites and think they're rather silly.

We know less about Buddha (as far as I know) than we do Jesus and no one ever claims Buddha didn't exist.

The "founding" dynasty of China was always considered a mythical one, full of heroic figures and demigods and such. National Geographic just did a piece on this dynasty -- and it DID exist. Although no one is insinuating that it had demigods -- yet.

I've even read that they've found remnants of a Minos (the Minotaur legend) and the travels of the Argonauts. (Golden Fleece.) Then there's Troy. The world has certainly been full of prophets and why wouldn't some sort of a Jesus exist? (I'm taking a non-Christian POV here). At the risk of sounding presumptuous, wouldn't the better argument be that Jesus was a prophet, a teacher, even a minor one, whose life and teachings caught the eye of the powerful, and then away we went.