Ancient 'Jesus midwife' tomb to be excavated by archaeologists Associated Press

[Hugh_Lebowski]

14. Pretty sure that if one cannot prove there was a Jesus, it logically follows one also

cannot prove that said Jesus had a brother named James the Just, nor a sister named Salome.

And I'm not saying there absolutely never was a dude who went by the name Jesus who at some point lived in Nazareth, preached, and perhaps had a group of devoted followers ... who lived around that time. But there is no actual proof there was. And certainly no proof of his purported miracle working.

Nothing about the Biblical character of Jesus ... can be backed by solid evidence, put it like that.

The best evidence would be writings that could be positively dated to the time he was alive, or shortly thereafter, written by someone who knew him or at least saw him in person, and gave an account of him.

But there are none, despite there being tons of records and writings from that time that persisted for at least some time, and were documented over the later centuries, or in some cases even preserved to this day.

Not saying I *know* either way, but there are solid reasons to speculate that he is, for all intents and purposes, a fictional character. Esp. the Bible's account of who/what he was.