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I quote a paragraph from Jesus, A very Jewish Myth, quote,''The difficulty in making a case against the historical existence of Jesus is that there is no universally accepted historical view of J C in the first place. Many people. it seems both Xtians and non extians, were content to hold on to a greatly diminished historical Jesus who becomes undetectable to history, while others continue to argue for Jesus Christ as the Son of God as described in the gospels. Very different arguments are needed to address these differing views. A god example of this is the case of the ''empty tomb''. Believers in the Christian story put forward the fact there is no evidence of veneration of a tomb of a Jesus as evidence that Jesus as evidence that Jesus really was the son of God and really was resurrected, thus there was no body in t5he tomb to venerate, thus explaining why we have no evidence for early veneration of the location of his burial. This is difficult for people who believe in a real historical Jesus who was just a man to explain, because they then have to explain why a real person who inspired the gospels wouldn't have had the location of his burial venerated. The explanation that there was no Jesus in the first place, however, solves all of these problems, but has to be explained properly to address differing claims.'' end quote, Which he does in a scholarly manner.

Sourced from Jesus, A very Jewish Myth, by R G Price not to be confused with Robert M Price who does not explicitly state that Jesus is purely mythical.