ARGUMENT FROM ALL EARLY CHRISTIANS AGREEING
Was Jesus a Historical Figure?
The point here is that if Christians had invented Jesus from whole cloth, they would never have said that he came from Nazareth; they would have said that he came from Bethlehem from the very start and that that was where he grew up. The only reason why they did not do this was because Jesus was a real person and everyone knew he had come from Nazareth.
(1) All early Christians agree that Jesus came from Nazareth.
(2) We do not know who these early Christians were.
(3) (2) does not matter because all early Christians agree that Jesus came from Nazareth.
(4) We do not know where these early Christians were.
(5) (4) does not matter because all early Christians agree that Jesus came from Nazareth.
(6) All early Christians agreed that Jesus came from Nazareth because all early Christians knew that Jesus came from Nazareth.
(7) All early Patristics agree that Nazareth was in Judea but whether it was in Galilee or Judea does not matter because all early Christians knew that Jesus came from Nazareth.
(8) Subsequent Gospels, which are our earliest Christian evidence of where Jesus came from, next to GMark, say Jesus did not originate from Nazareth.
(9) (8) is evidence that Jesus did come from Nazareth.
(10) What exactly does "came from" even mean?
(11) (10) does not matter because all early Christians knew that Jesus came from Nazareth.
(12) Jesus came from Nazareth because all early Christians agree that Jesus came from Nazareth.
(13) Therefore, Jesus existed.