I would have to say that if Jesus didn’t actually exist, those who invented him as a fictional character were the most brilliant literary and moral minds I’ve ever encountered. I was a literature major in college and graduate school, and to this day I’m an avid reader of literature, so my literary knowledge is probably above average. I have to say that I have encountered no fictional character with even a sliver of the density and moral brilliance that I find coming through in Jesus. So I find it highly likely that Jesus existed and that he was a uniquely extraordinary human being. But that
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