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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even Bart Ehrman says: "Paul knew Jesus' brother, James, and he knew his closest disciple, Peter, and he tells us that he did," Ehrman says. "If Jesus didn't exist, you would think his brother would know about it, so I think Paul is [b]probably pretty good evidence [/b]that Jesus at least existed."
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149462376/did-jesus-exist-a-historian-makes-his-case

Ehrman also says this: But how can you make a convincing case if we’re talking about thirty or so independent sources that know there was a man Jesus?  These sources are not all living in the same village someplace so they are egging each other on. They didn’t compare notes. They are independent of one another and are scattered throughout the Mediterranean.  They each have [b]heard about [/b]the man Jesus from their own sources of information, [b]which heard about[/b] him from their own sources of information. https://ehrmanblog.org/gospel-evidence-that-jesus-existed/[/quote]

"pretty good evidence" is not definitive. Not 100%.

So none of the "sources" were eyewitnesses. They only "knew" thirdhand information, at best. 
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Again, as we have discussed multiple times, you don't get to decide. The consensus among modern scholars is that Jesus is a real, historical figure. There is no doubt among these scholars that Jesus existed. Just because you don't like the evidence doesn't make it "likely." That's like saying you believe in the flat Earth because you reject the consensus that the Earth is round and all the evidence is faked.[/quote]

The consensus is that it's [i]most likely[/i] that he existed. Not 100%.

It has nothing to do with "liking" evidence or not. We just don't have reasonable level of independent verification to know 100%. 
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