There is absolutely no historical evidence whatsoever, that the person called Jesus who appears in the book known as the New Testament, ever existed.

In fact of the 42 historians who lived at the time, none mention this so called “miracle worker”, “king of the Jews” and other descriptions attributed to him.

Philo, whose writings were in fact preserved by the early Christians, and who lived in Jerusalem during the period that Jesus was apparently operating, and who reported on every detail of significance that occurred in the city at that time, does not mention him.

Paul, Saul of Tarsis, made up a false faith based on falsehood. By his own admission, he neither knew or met Jesus.

However, having said all that, if one wishes to believe in the existence of Jesus, one need look no further than Mathew where Jesus in his sermon on the mount states that he has not come to change the law but to strengthen it.

That law was Torah law.

So if you believe in Jesus, you have to accept the Torah. If you accept Pauls teachings, then you are going against everything that Jesus believed in.

Perhaps Paul founded Christianity. But Augustine is generally considered the founder of the Church. While Paul rejected Judaic Law, Augustine with his “eternal witness” dictum, cast Jews into homeless, loathed pariahs which has dominated European politics, art, literature and anti Israelism to this day. This particular aspect of Augustine needs to be formally repudiated by the church if genuine inter faith dialogue is to progress. The seeds of Augustine are very much evident in the EU and its treatment of Israel, as the Jewish Homeland. . Hence Israel is treated as a pariah nation, the “eternal witness ” of the international community.