Did historical Jesus really exist? The evidence just doesn’t add up.

[thucythucy]

211. The Romans executed many tens of thousands of criminals and politically dangerous folk.

Even if they kept records of all these executions, many of those records no longer exist. Anyway, I doubt they bothered keeping records of all the peasants executed in the provinces. Thousands of slaves were executed after the rebellion led by Sparticus. Their tortured bodies were hung up and down the main roads of Italy. Is there a list of all their names, anywhere?

Tens of millions of Romans--citizens, slaves, subjects of the Empire--lived and died without a single record of their existence that survives to this day. How many hundreds of thousands of Palestinian peasants lived and died during the era Jesus was supposed to have lived? How many of these lives are documented, anywhere? How much of that documentation survives to this day? Did none of these people then exist?

Even the writings and accounts of extremely famous persons have been lost. Almost all the poems ascribed to Homer are gone. Almost every single contemporary account of the life of Alexander the Great has been lost. Plutarch repeatedly cites texts which are no longer extant, and if all of his work had been lost (and much of it was--even his famous "Lives"--a best seller by Roman standards--has gaps) we'd have no record at all of these historians' existence. Ergo, by your argument, none of these people then existed?

There is no evidence of the existence of the vast majority of the human beings who lived and died on this planet, most especially those who lived and died before the advent of mass literacy. Which makes the fact that we have any mention at all of someone like Jesus notable, coming within decades of his death.

I wonder: do you honestly believe that, more than two thousand years from now, there will be any record of your existence at all? And if not, will this prove you were never really alive?