>>11. And if you cannot make the case for a historical Christ, then what was Jesus originally and how did belief in him arise and what did that belief signify to those who held it?

Read Tabor's The Jesus Dynasty.<<

I'm asking you. Since it is beyond question that many early Christian sects did not believe in Jesus as a creature of history, what might their belief systems have been based on? What did it mean to them to believe that way?