Jesus Christ Existed as a Historical Person and was Not a Myth

The non issue of Yeshua/Jesus/IsusThis may not be an issue for you but it is for many.Where Did The Yeshua Myth Come From?In my previous round I invalidated Pro's attempt to provide some evidence for the historicity of Yeshua (some rebuttal coming don't worry). Now in this round I will attempt to show where the influences that came together to form the character now called Jesus.Saviour GodsIn the hundred or so years before Yeshua is claimed to have been born there were many different saviour gods and mashiah's wandering about iron age Judea [1] [2] [3]. There is a good chance that Yeshua could have been a mix of these characters. Even if this is not true it is certainly the case that these early claimants to the title of mashiah and the hellenistic death cults prepared the way for the rise of Christianity in the 4th century AD (yes Christianity did exist before then but it really took off with the conversion of Constantine [4] [5]).Mitras (I know there are many different spellings)The Mitra religion was popular in the Roman army during the 1st century though the religion had made it to what was then the Hittite empire fifteen hundred years previously [6] and there is some chance that the Mitra religion and Christianity have a common ancestor somewhere. There are some interesting similarities between the two deities for instance Mitras was born of a virgin called Aredvi Sura Anahita. Mitras was also referred to as "The way the truth and the light" as well as Mitras the redeemer.Furthermore when this common scene [7] when interpreted with Christian iconography it is eerily similar to the story of Yeshua. Simply InventedThroughout history we see various cults popping up without explanation. It is possible that Christianity was simply invented to attempt to try and quench humans fear of the unknown and human fear of death.RebuttalHow Long did Jews Live?The evidence I presented last round (that being the average age and the standard deviation) were not based off of the hearsay of a single person but instead off of a number of factors namely genetics, primary testimony and archaeological evidence. Sure there are outliers in any population but those outliers are a fraction of the total population. Also I'm sure that my opponent accepts that there is a time when you question the legitimacy of a primary source. For instance would my opponent accept a persons word that they fought in the mexican civil war? There is at least one person who fought in it living but that one person is very much the outlier and not the norm. The longest a person could be expected to live is 42 and so when you get past that age you require evidence that can be cross referenced with other earlier testimony and or archaeology.What I am Actually ArguingMy point about the lifespans in Iron age Judea was that if Yeshua existed as described then it would be expected that he would be recorded within the lifespans of his followers.John Claiming To Have SeenJust because someone claims to have seen something doesn't mean they have.Gospels No one knows who wrote the gospels. Almost every biblical scholar accepts that we don't know who wrote them [8]. They were probably not actually written anonymously and that the names are correct (at least to some degree) but that doesn't mean we know who those writers were. Furthermore there are many other dozens gospels which did not make it into the cannon and many are simply contradictory.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org...[2] http://www.chaim.org... [3] Jewish Antiquities 17.278-284[4] http://en.wikipedia.org...(1).png [5] http://en.wikipedia.org... [6] http://www.truthbeknown.com... [7] http://en.wikipedia.org... [8] http://hwarmstrong.com...