Ok, you're right to say that there's no proof that Jesus didn't or did exist. For all we know, there could very well have been a man named Jesus, or maybe there wasn't. But that wasn't really my point.

What I was trying to show was that people today, the Church as much as lay believers, feel that they need to believe in the Gospels as HISTORICAL (meaning true) documents, that the stories written in them actually happened as they appear in the books.

The author of the book I read showed, convincingly, I think, that whether or not he existed, the Gospels are myths, similar, if not almost identical, to other stories of saviours that existed in the ancient world. If you want me to type the parts where he compares Jesus' life with that of Horus, I could do it, but it's long Even the miracles ascribed to Jesus are often copied off miracles performed by these other religious figures.

But ultimately, if someone does have a strong and solid faith, and is able to read the Gospels on a deeper level than just blindly believing it word for word, whether Jesus existed or not is inconsequential, because the story is true on a mythological level. It represents humanity's struggle to live and to understand itself, its purpose, and it serves to show us that the Divinie is inside each of us, not only Jesus.

I hope I explained myself better this time.