A notion.

Jesus was a man. he simply had ideas of how people should treat each other, and that message stuck with a lot of people. over time he became elevated to son-of-god status. personally i like to compare myself to jesus. i have ideas on how things could be better, i've got 10 or 12 people who will listen to me, and i've got a beard. i'm also joking on that last part, so anybody who got their panties tied up in a bunch calm down.

it doesnt matter. jesus is about humans having spiritual contact their heavenly father.

A historical figure. He was an actual man who walked the earth. Whether you want to believe he was the son of God or just a nice guy is up to you, but the man existed.

Jesus is the Son of God. ~"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life." ~John 14:6 There is more evidence that Jesus lived than there is for Julius Caesar. "After approximately 400 years of scriptural silence, Jesus arrived on the scene in about 4 BC. Throughout His teaching, Jesus often quotes the Old Testament, declaring that He did not come to destroy the Jewish Scriptures, but to fulfill them. In Luke 24:44-45, Jesus proclaims to his disciples, “All things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.” Starting in about 40 AD and continuing to about 90 AD, the eye-witnesses to the life of Jesus Christ, including Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, James, Peter and Jude write the Gospels, letters and books that later become the New Testament. These authors quote from 31 books of the Old Testament, and widely circulate their material so that by about 150 AD, early Christians were referring to the set of writings as the New Covenant. During the 200s AD, the writings were translated into Latin, Coptic (Egypt) and Syriac (Syria) and widely disseminated. At this time, at least 21 of the writings were considered canonical. Thereafter, in 397 AD, the current 27 books of the New Testament were formally confirmed and canonized in the Synod of Carthage. Like the Old Testament, we now have significant evidence that the New Testament we read today is remarkably accurate as compared to the original manuscripts. Of the thousands of copies made by hand before the printing press, we have approximately 24,000 manuscripts, including more than 5,300 Greek manuscripts from the New Testament alone. The Bible is better preserved, by far, than accepted writings of Homer, Plato and Aristotle. Of course, as the Bible was carried from country to country, it was translated into languages that don’t necessarily mirror the original languages of Greek and Hebrew. However, other than grammatical and cultural differences, God’s Word has been remarkably preserved and translated over the years. The Bible now gives inspiration to hundreds of millions throughout the world – that’s because the Bible is truly the inspired Word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17 and 2 Peter 1:20-21)." ~ http://www.allabouttruth.org/holy-bible.htm Napoleon's opinion of Jesus: "Well then, I will tell you. Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded great empires; but upon what did these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love, and to this very day millions will die for Him. . . . I think I understand something of human nature; and I tell you, all these were men, and I am a man; none else is like Him: Jesus Christ was more than a man. . . . I have inspired multitudes with such an enthusiastic devotion that they would have died for me . . . but to do this is was necessary that I should be visibly present with the electric influence of my looks, my words, of my voice. When I saw men and spoke to them, I lightened up the flame of self-devotion in their hearts. . . . Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space. Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful! In defiance of time and space, the soul of man, with all its powers and faculties, becomes an annexation to the empire of Christ. All who sincerely believe in Him, experience that remarkable, supernatural love toward Him. This phenomenon is unaccountable; it is altogether beyound the sope of man's creative powers. Time, the great destroyer, is powerless to extinguish this sacred flame; time can neither exhaust its strength nor put a limit to its range. This is it, which strikes me most; I have often thought of it. This it is which proves to me quite convincingly the Divinity of Jesus Christ."

Jesus was an actual person, the myth is the Christian religion...

If you would spend some serious time examing and reading the bible and seek Jesus through the Holy Spirit, you would come to an understanding that something real is available to you through prayer. Jesus exists in the spirit realm and he wants to be your friend. He is like an invisible Friend. We share our day with Him, our problems, our success. We keep an attitude of gratitude and we listen for his voice...and you will hear him speak to you if you take the time and are filled with expectation. . Jesus is not a myth or a legend. He is real.

He is more than a legend. He was and is God Himself. Mythology began when the faith of the Jews was perverted by the Greeks. Zeus likely came about because of a misinterpretation of Moses being equated with God on Mt. Sinai, for during the time of the giving of the Ten Commandments, there were thunderings and lightnings. Secondly, Hercules is a perversion of Jesus Christ. Greeks took liberty with at least the early portions of the Bible, and while Jesus was 100% man and 100% God, the Greeks made Hercules but half God and in need of finding his way back to heaven, er, olympus. Lastly, Hades is the Greek perversion of Satan. Satan does not rule hell, but is to be subjected to the unfathomable torments for eternity when all is said and done in the Biblical sense.

a Mythical Legend who could have possibly been loosely based on an actual human but is more likely a combination of mythical figures. There is not one shred of objective data that he existed.

Who cares- the man is dead- leave him alone- no one ever bring up the name jesus again ok? he's just some dead jewish person- whats the big deal?

No, though not all the details reported in the Gospels should be regarded as absolutely historical. The Synoptic Gospels belong to the genre of "Near Eastern Sacred Stories." These would take real individuals and their story, and present them in a dramatized way, adding fictional details and vignettes that would illuminate the significance of the person’s life and/or the events around it. Because of this, it is impossible to determine the historicity of certain particulars: it's unclear where fact ends and poetic license begins. HOWEVER, the core structure of every "sacred story" in all its variants and retellings had to correspond to the historical events themselves. John's Gospel is presented as the testimony of eyewitness (and if it's not, it's utterly blasphemous) but it is orchestrated around theological themes, and is evidently the product of a lifetime of sermonic material: it is a kind of ballad - a very talky one - consisting of 7 discourses occasioned by 7 signs - so the author clearly enjoyed a lot of editorial license as well, and is more interested in communicating theological truth than either a motivating story or an historical account. Understanding all this, and using all extra-Biblical references and allusions as well, historians are pretty much agreed on certain basic facts of Jesus' life: 1) he lived in Judea and Galilee in the first third of the first century; 2) he was born under a stigma of illegitimacy; 3) he was baptized by John the Baptist; 4) he was an itinerant rabbi, mystic & apocalyptic/millenarian (“The end of the world is near - so repent before it's too late!”) preacher; 5) in his own lifetime he had a reputation as a healer and wonder-worker (even the 2nd & 3rd century pagan and Jewish apologists acknowledge this and try to explain it away by attributing it to sorcery and demons); 6) he called/appointed 12 apostles; 7) he rejected much of the oral law; 8) he amended the written Law on his own authority; 9) he called God “Abba” (‘Pappa’), which was absolutely unique and scandalous at the time; 10) he forbade divorce; 11) he associated with the unclean and social outcasts; 12) he had women among his disciples; 13) he claimed to be both the apocalyptic "Son of Man" (the world-judge of the end-times who sits on the Throne of God) and "the Bridegroom of Israel" (a Jewish circumlocution for the God of Israel); he also consistently raised messianic hopes about himself and refused to dispel them; 14) he drove the moneychangers out of the Temple; 15) he instituted the Eucharist/Lord’s Supper/Holy Communion (though what exactly he meant by it, is still a mystery to historians and a bone of contention among Christian denominations) 16) the High Priest and his cronies had Jesus arrested, condemned him for blasphemy, and petitioned Pilate to execute him; 17) he was crucified by order of Pilate on the 16th of Nisan in either 30 or 33 CE, and the execution worked: Jesus died. 18) the following Sunday his tomb was empty and no one could produce the body 19) his disciples and his family claimed that he had been resurrected into a glorious and incorruptible (and strangely tangible) body, and that they had ongoing contact with him over several weeks. This is as far as proper historical method can take us at the moment.

Obviously there are myths and legends about him (clues are when impossible things happen in tales about him, such as feeding thousands of people with a few loaves of bread), but he's certainly a historical figure.

There are many non-biblical books written by un-inspired men of the first century who relay first hand knowledge of Jesus and that he performed many wonders. Some of the records are even hostile toward Him and the gospel but they have unwittingly bolstered proof of his existence. There is more proof of Jesus existance than there is of George Washington.

Jesus is flat out history, it happened, no doubt Jesus 'Christ' however, that's up for debate

Wasn't he a carpenter

If the following is purely coincidence, then it must be a coincidence of an untecedent and extraordinary proportion ever known in the history of mankind. But the [belief] in the return of a Christ, which has prevailed throughout the Christian era, is just the decendant of this old belief that the "savior-God would return to earth". However, this return of the "Savior" was associated by the Babylonians and the Egytians in relation to the Sun. Comparative Hierologists have discovered records of about thirty(30) Savior-God religions. These cults spread over all the world in very remote times but they show [evidence] of common origin. Here's a list of the similarities shared among the various Savior-Gods: 1) They were born on or near Christmas. 2) Their mothers were virgins. 3) They were born in a cave or stable. 4) They worked for the salvation of humanity. 5) They were called "Saviors", "Mediators", "Healers", etc. 6) They were overcome by evil powers. 7) After being slain they arose from death and ascended to Heaven at Easter. 8) They were commemorated by "Eucharistic" type of rites. 9) Many of these "Saviors" were believed to make a second coming to the world. The term "Christ" means the "anointed one". The word the Greeks used was Christos and Chrestos in use prior to the Christian era. There is in the British Museum an ancient table from Babylon dating back to about 2000 B.C. This document is a description of a "Passion" play relating to the god "Bel"--also known as "Baal" among ancient Hebrews.

No.

I found 13 sources last night on a google search, I can't find the website today as I can't remeber how I worded my google search but I did just find this. ( Julius Africanus, writing around 221 AD, found a reference in the writings of Thallus, who wrote a history of the Eastern Mediterranean around 52 AD, which dealt with the darkness that covered the land during Jesus's crucifixion: "Thallus, in the third book of his histories, explains away the darkness as an eclipse of the sun--unreasonably, as it seems to me." [A solar eclipse could not take place during a full moon, as was the case during Passover season.]) Although it isn't an account of Jesus it does confirm the mysterious darkness associated with the crucifixion of Jesus as mentioned in the gospels.