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No. He is not a historical figure like, say, Muhammad or Caesar.
if you found a corpse it would cause a lot of problems for the religion.
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The only physical proof you can have of a person that lived before photography is a body. So no, Jesus did not have a publically marked grave and we do not have his bones.
That being said, there is a difference between proving something historically and proving it in the court of law. Historical evidence points to Jesus having been a person that lived around that time.
The only evidence of Jesus, is a few random mentions of someone named Jesus.
And it wasn't exactly a rare name.
Like, if I found written evidence of a dude named Paul, that doesn't mean Paul Bunyan was real.
It just means some dude named Paul was real.
All the crazy claims about being a Messiah wasnt until long after he was dead.
This isn't really right. The primary texts corroborate more facts than the name: that he was put to death by the Romans for inciting disloyalty.
No, Jesus never existed. He is a fictional character.
It seems like the consensus is that the stories probably stem from a real guy because that's deemed more likely than no person existing as a basis for the story, but no, there is not material evidence for jesus christ's existence
There most likely were a bunch of people called Yeshua back then.
There's the Talpiot Tomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talpiot_Tomb
It might not be him but also it might.
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Yes there is, here is his mugshot shortly after he was booked. Looks like he spent the evening turning water into wine.
https://www.history.com/news/was-jesus-real-historical-evidence
Tl;dr: No.
My opinion: It's a nice story. And with stories the most important thing is what it teaches us or makes us feel. Not that it's true. Maybe they took inspiration from several preaching hippies who lived back then and made one story out of that. Exaggerated everything and made stuff up. Probably all of it because the bible was't even written close to his supposed lifetime. It'd be like you now writing a story about a dude who died in ~~1870~~. Without any previous records to get information from. [Edit: The first things have probably been written down like 40-50 years after his death.]
And I mean if Jesus existed, he would certainly disapprove of what people do (and did) in his name.
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