CONUNDRUM FOR CHRISTIANS; DID JESUS EVEN EXIST?

Jesus christ has always been a controversial figure. In fact, his very existence is questionable. David M. Wulff, in his tome, Psychology of Religion: Classic and Contemporary, states, "The story of Jesus, as related in the gospels, with all it's unconfirmed miraculous happenings, is more plausibly explained as largely a fiction, written to not only conform to Judaic traditions but also to move Christianity beyond being a tribal religion. The story appealed to Gentiles as well, with the incorporation of many of their God-man myths."
The existence of jesus has not been historically established. Consider these points:
1. There is no contemporary documentation of the event (except for a very brief and superficial mention by the historian Josephus).
2. No archaeological proof (no tomb, no shroud) - the cloth of Turin has been carbon-14 dated to the 13th century C.E.
3. No archives except for a sepulcher invented by Saint Helena, mother of Constantine.

Jesus gave a name to Jewish rejection of Roman domination. He was an epic hero among epic heroes. It is commonplace in the literature of antiquity for these god-like champions to have been born of a virgin mother who was informed of her "immaculate conception" by an angel. Charismatic leaders who attracted passionate followers were also said to "perform miracles." In retrospect, jesus can be seen as a product of creative evolution; an incarnation of all the ideal tendencies in the human race. Again, to reference Wulff, the central events for Christian faith, Christ's death and resurrection, are projections of the intrapsychic processes of transformation, in which lower desires and ends are "put to death" or renounced for higher ones, of which Jesus is the perfect embodiment.
In summation, as put so pithily in the 2001 Israeli hit song, "The messiah is not coming - and he is not even going to call."

cogito ergo atheos sum