Hesus: Pagkakaiba sa mga binago

Ngunit, halos lahat ng modernong iskolar ng sinaunang kasaysayan, Kristyano man o hindi, ay sumasangayon na si Hesus ay taagang na buhay. Sa isang ''review'' noong 2011 tungkol sa kalgayan 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 Voors, itinuturing ng mga iskolar biblikal at ng mga nga-aaral ng klasikal na kasaysayan ay na-''refute'' na ang mga teorya na nagsasabing walang istorikal na Hesus.{{sfn|Van Voorst|2000|p=16}}