The best evidence that Jesus was an actual person is found in the works of Paul. In order to deny Jesus' existence you have to argue that all Paul's letters are forgeries. And in order to do that you
have to argue that still other documents are also forgeries. The mass of forgery involved
ultimately identified becomes implausible.

Not all the traditional letters are actually Pauline. Galatians, Romans, First and Second Corinthians,
Phillipians, Philoman and First Thessalonians are Pauline. In my opinion - which is not the general one - Second Thessalonians is Pauline in the sense that whoever submitted it thought it was Paul's
letter to the Phillipians and historially it really had started out as First Thessalonians but had been
"improved" so much and so many times that it evolved into something quite different.

Jesus Christ , the magic performing one, is imaginary. There may have been an intinerant rabbi, Joshua ben Joseph wandering around saying he was messiah. They are two very different entities so I agree with Carrier. there were enough Christians who thought JC wasn't a physical being in the early days, so this seem a logical sequence of events. If one reads the bible, it certainly doesn't read like it is about a real person.

Josephus, the first century Judean historian makes casual mention of Jesus. This would indicate that he was both a real person at that time and that his actions were sufficient to be noticed by historian but nothing that would indicate anything Supernatural

Carrier is an excellent scholar and generally makes well supported arguments.

The truth seems to fall within the range between complete myth and story so far removed from its history as to be unrecognizable. It's pretty hard to completely disprove someone completely from so far away in history, but the problems with the factual story are enormous.

I don't discuss jesus, god, devil, angels, saints, unicorns, dragons or aliens.

Yes. I've read Dr. Carriers book ON The Historocity of Jesus twice. I have also chatted with him on twitter a few times. Though I do not accept that jesus was divine, I do believe he was a real man.Carrier is a mythicist. He does not accept jesus of nazareth as even ever living. After talking to and reading Dr. Ehrmans books, I was more impressed.

i think he was a reall character who stould out from the crowd with soome radiical ideas and got put to d death for it

Oh, he is so onto something. And what Ehrman says about him only makes his case stronger.

Personally, he may in fact be on to something. I have read his most recent book, "On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt" and find his writing scholarly and more detailed than his talks, at least the ones I have seen. As a lecturer and wit, I prefer listening to Robert M. Price, if I'm going to entertain notions of a mythological Jesus.

It matters not one bit to me whether or not a person named Jesus existed. Even if he did exist, and caused some trouble in Judah, that hardly proves that he was a half-man, half-god who was born of a virgin, rose from the dead and ascended into heaven--that's too tall a tale for me to swallow, and keep down.