I’m not a believer but their is decent evidence to suggest that Jesus was a real guy.

Can you name any such evidence?

Check out Dr. Bart Ehrman’s book Did Jesus Exist?, he goes over all the evidence.

Every week I receive maybe two or three emails asking me whether Jesus existed as a human being.   When I started getting these emails, some years ago now, I thought the question was rather peculiar and I did not take it seriously.  Of course Jesus existed.  Everyone knows he existed.  Don’t they?

But the questions kept coming and soon I began to wonder:  why are there so many people asking?  My wonder only increased when I learned that I myself was being quoted in some circles – misquoted rather – as saying that Jesus never existed.  I decided to look into the matter.  As it turns out, to my surprise, there is an entire literature devoted to the question of whether or not there ever was a real man, Jesus.

I was surprised because I am trained as a scholar of the New Testament and early Christianity, and for thirty years I have written extensively on the historical Jesus, the Gospels, the early Christian movement, the history of the church’s first three hundred years.   Like all New Testament scholars, I have read literally thousands and thousands of books and articles in English and other European languages on Jesus, the New Testament, and early Christianity.  But I was almost completely unaware of this body of skeptical literature, except as a slight image on the very periphery of my vision.   As are most of my colleagues in this field of scholarship.

Those who do not think Jesus existed are frequently militant in their views and remarkably adept at parrying counter-evidence that to the rest of the civilized world might seem completely compelling and even unanswerable.  But these writers have answers, and the smart ones among them need to be taken seriously, if for no other reason than to show why they cannot be right about their major contention.  The reality is, whatever else you may think about Jesus, he certainly did exist.  That is what this book will set out to demonstrate.

I hardly need to stress what I have already intimated, that this is the view of virtually every expert on the planet.   That in itself is not proof, of course.  Expert opinion is, at the end of the day, still opinion.  But why would you not want to know what experts have to say?

ehrmanblog.org/my-book-did-jesus-exist-an-answer-…

Okay, that was a whole lot of someone else’s words to say the same thing you said.

I am not reading a whole book to answer your assertion:

I asked for evidence.

You seem to have read a book that presents it. So give me the actual evidence that book presents. This should be easy, because you’re using that book as said evidence.

Please give us a bulleted list of pieces of evidence that back up your claim.

Know that if you choose to argue against facts attested by the overwhelming majority consensus of scholars, academics and historians then you are the one making extraordinary claims.

Read through page 55-101 of below:

archive.org/details/…/1up

If you want to hear him talking on this I suggest skipping to 14:35 if you’re impatient:

youtu.be/hnybQxIgfPw

Know that if you choose to argue against facts

Er, what? No, please reread what I said.

Can you give me ONE piece of tangible evidence, or can you only write a strawman dissertation?

I don’t care to watch a video or read a book because you can’t plainly state your point.

How about you plainly state your point?

That took an incredible amount of time to format and edit everything in only to receive such a rude dismissive response.

I really hope a lurker appreciates how much effort i spent to give you exactly what you asked for, because you’re a genuinely miserable person.