I am an atheist so whether or not Christ was a real person is kind of irrelevant to me.
But I'd just like to say that The Bible is an unreliable historical document at best and complete mythology at worst. The New Testament is especially unreliable since the Council of Nicaea determined which books were canonical and which apocryphal. So IMO the Bible should not be relied upon as a historical document because it has been altered so many times in so many different translations it has lost most of its meaning.
As to whether Jesus was a real person there are few if any reliable extra-Biblical accounts on him. However I do believe that there was a man who lived named Jesus and that he was a religious leader and that people believed he performed miracles. Josephus is one of the few extra-Biblical sources on Jesus and his life that I have found. However whether his accounts are authentic or not is highly debated. For one thing his writings are suspiciously praising of Jesus being that Josephus was a Pharisee and sympathized with the Romans. In other words it would have made more sense if Josephus and his accounts of Jesus were more critical and even damning instead of praising.
But I'd just like to say that The Bible is an unreliable historical document at best and complete mythology at worst. The New Testament is especially unreliable since the Council of Nicaea determined which books were canonical and which apocryphal. So IMO the Bible should not be relied upon as a historical document because it has been altered so many times in so many different translations it has lost most of its meaning.
As to whether Jesus was a real person there are few if any reliable extra-Biblical accounts on him. However I do believe that there was a man who lived named Jesus and that he was a religious leader and that people believed he performed miracles. Josephus is one of the few extra-Biblical sources on Jesus and his life that I have found. However whether his accounts are authentic or not is highly debated. For one thing his writings are suspiciously praising of Jesus being that Josephus was a Pharisee and sympathized with the Romans. In other words it would have made more sense if Josephus and his accounts of Jesus were more critical and even damning instead of praising.
