""Jesus might be a folkloric figure whose mythological presence served as a means of teaching how to live depending of course on how you "cherry pick" it.""

Or, of course, he might have been a real person who simply pissed off the authorities, because he was advancing commonsense views at odds with what both the Jewish and Roman leaders were promoting, and paid the ultimate price.

Neither you (for all your air of certainty) nor I know which!

Don T.