Hesus: Pagkakaiba sa mga binago

May mga nagsasabi na ang [[#H|historisad o pagiging tunay na umiral]] ng indibidwal na si Hesus ay hindi totoo. Ang ibang mga iskolar ay nagmungkahi na si Hesus ay hindi talaga umiral ngunit inimbento lámang at kinopya ang kuwento nito sa mga paganong diyos na namatay at muling nabuhay sa Ehipto at Gresya.<ref name=jne/> Ngunit, halos lahat ng modernong iskolar ng sinaunang kasaysayan, Kristiyano man o hindi, ay sumasangayon na si Hesus ay talagang na buhay. Sa isang ''review'' noong 2011 tungkol sa kalagayan ng modernong iskolarship, sinulat ni Bart Ehrman : "He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees".<ref>{{cite book|first=Bart|last=Ehrman|year=2011|title=Forged: writing in the name of God – Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are|isbn=978-0-06-207863-6 |url=https://books.google.com/?id=MtOMO8i4GLoC |publisher=HarperCollins |page=285}}</ref> Sinasabi ni Richard A. Burridge: "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church's imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more".<ref>{{cite book|title=Jesus Now and Then|first1= Richard A.|last1= Burridge |first2= Graham |last2= Gould|year=2004| isbn= 978-0-8028-0977-3 |page=34 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing}}</ref> Si Robert M. Price ay hindi naniniwalang nabuhay si Hesus, ngunit sumasangayon siya na ang kanyang perspektibo ay hindi tugma sa konklusyon ng karamihan ng iskolar.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|first=Robert M. |last=Price |title=Jesus at the Vanishing Point|encyclopedia= The Historical Jesus: Five Views|editor-last1= Beilby|editor-last2= Eddy|year= 2009 |publisher= InterVarsity| isbn= 978-0-8308-7853-6 | editor-first= James K.|pages=55, 61 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O33P7xrFnLQC&pg=PA55 |editor2-first= Paul R.}}</ref> Tinawag ni James D.G. Dunn ang mga teoryang mito bilang isang "thoroughly dead thesis".<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Paul's understanding of the death of Jesus|encyclopedia=Sacrifice and Redemption|first= Stephen W.|last= Sykes |year=2007| publisher= Cambridge University Press| isbn= 978-0-521-04460-8|pages=35–36}}</ref> Si Michael Grant, isang ''classicist'', ay sinulat noong 1977 na: "In recent years, no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary".<ref name=Grant1977>{{cite book|first=Michael|last=Grant|title=Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels|publisher=Scribner's|year=1977|isbn=978-0-684-14889-2|page=200}}</ref> Ayon kay Robert E. Van Voorst , ang mga iskolar biblikal at ang mga nag-aaral ng klasikal na kasaysayan ay itunuturing ang "teoryang mito" bilang mga na-''refute'' na argumento.{{sfn|Van Voorst|2000|p=16}}