godfry n. glad

This is the problem I have with most HJ proponents... They assume a priori existence and then proceed to try and determine from the evidence what he _really_ thought and who he might _really_ have been.

I think that the mythicists have introduced sufficient doubt into the equation to put the two postulations on par. But neither HJ, nor MJ, has sufficient evidence to clearly exclude the other as a possibility. Then... There are all the variants between the two.

Accept it. There is no clarity in the foundational story of Christianity. We have no idea whether Jesus was real or not.

godfry