Religion
In reply to the discussion: Was Jesus even born? [View all]edhopper
(33,479 posts)the Gospels were written soon after his death. So I don't have a problem with the idea that they used a person that was talked about and told this fantastical story using him as a basis. Seems more probable to me than making someone up out of whole cloth.
David (not Davey) Crockett lived and died. He was not born on a mountain top and did not kill a bear when he was three.
There was a Saint Nicholas in Turkey who purportedly gave some children gifts. He doesn't currently live at the North Pole though.
Opinions on this would probably fall on a 1 to 10 scale. With 1 being that there is no way he existed and 10 being he definitely lived and was accurately portrayed in the NT. 5 would be you can't say either way. I would be a 6-6 1/2. A soft probably.