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Although I am an atheist I am willing to be open to the idea of Jesus being a real person.

From my incredibly basic understanding of the fella. I interpret him being an incredibly intelligent and enlightened guy who amazed his followers during his time so much that they've raised him to a almost impossible level of perfection.
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I believe he was an intelligent person and enlightened if you mean rational, well informed and spiritually aware. Not enlightened if you mean modern, tolerant of traditional or political and social mores. Most Christians seem to think that through might or tolerance Jesus will bring peace through God's kingdom. Jesus didn't come to make peace in or fix the world, he came to destroy it. The first step was his previous existence as a man as recorded in the gospels and the final step is the actual destruction of the world as a spirit being as foretold in the book of Revelation.

Many often mistake the church or Christendom as being in line with or founded by Jesus when actually those things have more to do with paganism and politics. Constantine being the most obvious example, the USA being the most recent. What you think of as Jesus may not be anything to do with him.

Do you think Adam was a real person?