belief?
Tom Harpur has published a book, "Pagan Christs" in which he makes a convincing case that the Gospels are entirely cobbled together out of very ancient mystical writings going back to ancient Egypt etc and there was no historical Jesus. However he claims that these writings contain a much higher truth even though Jesus did noy exist.
Clearly orthodox interpretation of this material is simplistic, but does it have more authenticity because it is much more ancient than supposed?
Tom Harpur has his own forum. Keith