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LOL!! When you poison the well with such unbelievably poor sources as Josh McDowell and Lee Strobell, two of the biggest jokes in the apologist biz, you shoot down your entire post.
Nor are you by the looks of it!
Oh he is "well read", the problem is what he reads. He is quite a bit like a believer in ancient aliens that cites Von Daniken and others as valid sources. He avoids actual scholars.Nor are you by the looks of it!
I vote for Choice B.
If you want to sling insults at me for not sharing in your beliefs that's up to you. A couple posts back I pointed out that Paul revealed his unreliable sources after you referred to him, namely that his sources were visions and his reading of ancient scripture at which point you decided to sling insults. If you want to claim to know whether the Jesus in question was an historical figure or not from reading Paul or anyone else is your prerogative. I don't think you know and I don't think anyone can know from the information that we have. If you don't like it, it's not my problem, and if all you can do is sling insults then I'll have to consider that to be your problem.
Whine less ...
You wish to believe it is historical even though it isn't.
History, like science, has its own peer review. Please show us this history that has passed peer review.
"Historical data" within apologetic works and "historical works" themselves are not interchangeable. They are a completely different hermeneutic from each other. Just because a work of fiction contains many factual particulars doesn't mean that fiction is the best place to go for factual data. A well-read person would know that.
Need references and citations of academic historical references that show the research at the time of Jesus Christ life.