A traveling philosopher who makes no claims of divinity A mentally unstable man who is prone to seeing visions A con man promising people miracles A regular guy who thinks people should love each other No one, Jesus never really existed. He is the product of later authors imaginations. A little of each of the above. Most likely Jesus is an amalgamation of various messianical jewish preachers that existed about that time, one or several of which may have borne the actual name, and one or more of which may actually have been crucified. The various stories were likely turned into one persons life around 70AD and then cleaned up and purged of contradictory material again at the Council of Nicaea (325 AD). Atheist here, but I expect I'd find there was a real, historical Jesus. Maybe I don't frequent enough religious discussions, but there seems to be a dearth of threads concerning whether there was a real Buddha, a real Mohammed, a real Zoroaster, and so on. It's always JC who seems to get singled out for not having really existed. There have been enough charismatic individual who founded religious movements in historical, even modern, times that I would expect to find a real Jesus. Supernatural powers? No, I don't think he had any. Nor do I think that Christianity as we have it today necessarily carries much of whatever message he preached. But, yeah, I think there was a Jesus. Most historians and scholars say a real Jesus