On the original question, did Jesus exist...?

Yes.

And if you think not, then tell yourself also that Buddha, Lao-Tse, Zoroaster, Moses, Krishna, and many others like them did not exist, and rest happy in your assumptions of intellectual impregnability, based upon nothing in fact but your little mental ego.

It's laughable that anyone has to even ask, at this point in human culture, whether Jesus existed, but I heard of a farmer who wouldn't believe in giraffes even after he'd see one, so anything is possible when it comes to belief or disbelief.

Now as to what Jesus was like, exactly, that's a whole other matter, and can lead to some interesting questions and speculations one way or another. I'm still speculating about it, and will probably never reach the end of doing so.

His name wasn't exactly "Jesus", it was "Yeshua" in the language of his time...but has been altered into "Jesus" (Gee-Zuss) in the English language, that's all. The Spanish language on the other hand calls him "Hay-soos" (English phonetic spelling of the Spanish word "Jesus").

- LH