Did Jesus Historical Exist?

[Clive]

Nope - alternative translations for people dying are falling asleep, in your link, and who says the dying happened here recently? Assumptions - what are the first three letters?

[Clive]

And is this not by definition a special case? What is dying and rising when it's at home?

[Leucius Charinus]

The Messiah must have existed. Religious writers would never make things up.

Moses, Jesus and Mo are possibly fabrications of warlords' scriptoria. Religion was regarded by the common people as true, by the wise false, and by the rulers and warlords a very useful method of influential "mind control" of the populous in a geographically extended empire.