There are not going to be any primary sources of Jesus or any other average person who lived thousands of years ago.
Do you think it’s more likely that early Christian writers fabricated a totally fictional person rather than mythologizing one that people already knew existed?
"Do you think it’s more likely that this Jack Kirby and Stan Lee fabricated a totally fictional person rather than mythologizing one that people already knew existed?
Of course Reed Richards existed, and of course he was the leader of the Fantastic Four.
The stories take place in New York City, which we know was a real place, so therefore the stories must be real.
There are not going to be any primary sources of Jesus or any other average person who lived thousands of years ago.
Do you think it’s more likely that early Christian writers fabricated a totally fictional person rather than mythologizing one that people already knew existed?
Hence the continued, likely irreconcilable, dispute about whether there was a real Jesus
The year 4068:
"Do you think it’s more likely that this Jack Kirby and Stan Lee fabricated a totally fictional person rather than mythologizing one that people already knew existed?
Of course Reed Richards existed, and of course he was the leader of the Fantastic Four.
The stories take place in New York City, which we know was a real place, so therefore the stories must be real.
See how bad that logic is?