Reply #4: Everything I've ever read about the Jesus Seminar says they

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decided that there was little, but not no, historical evidence that someone like him existed. What historical evidence there is says there was someone who was a grassroots leader, who was betrayed by some of those who knew him, and he was probably executed. They say he could have been buried where he was supposed to have been buried. And then there is plenty of evidence that folks talked and then began to write about him some 20 years after he died and some of that stuff became the Bible. They say there is no concrete evidence that he said, or did, the things he is said to have said and done. And, though activities of that sort are known to have been characteristic of such figures, there is no historical evidence that any of said activities were miraculous.

To me, it doesn't matter whether the man Jesus existed or not. It doesn't matter whether he rose from the dead, nor whether he did miracles. It also doesn't matter to me whether teapots can fly. That does not prevent me from enjoying the real pleasures of tea and teapots.