As our stories were written much later and used as propaganda so were the Christian ones. I doubt that Jesus ever existed as much as I doubt the existence of our prophets.
Firstly, our earlier stories were written much later; some of the later ones were not. The Book of Lamentation, for example, can be narrowed down to the period of less than a century between the destruction of Jerusalem and the return from the Babylonian Exile; there's no reason to believe it was not written by an eyewitness observer.
Secondly, why do you believe that Jesus or our prophets did not exist? Somebody had to have written the contents of their books, and whilst you can argue that, say, the book of Daniel was written centuries after it was set, and there were two, or even three, Isaiahs, there's no reason to believe that Jeremiah, for example, did not exist and write his book.
As for Jesus, where do you think Christianity came from if Jesus did not exist? It's true he may not have done all the things that were attributed to him in the Gospels (on which see my recent blog posts), but very few scholars do not believe a historical Jesus existed. There's also quite a few contemporary non-Christian accounts referring to him.
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Firstly, our earlier stories were written much later; some of the later ones were not. The Book of Lamentation, for example, can be narrowed down to the period of less than a century between the destruction of Jerusalem and the return from the Babylonian Exile; there's no reason to believe it was not written by an eyewitness observer.
Secondly, why do you believe that Jesus or our prophets did not exist? Somebody had to have written the contents of their books, and whilst you can argue that, say, the book of Daniel was written centuries after it was set, and there were two, or even three, Isaiahs, there's no reason to believe that Jeremiah, for example, did not exist and write his book.
As for Jesus, where do you think Christianity came from if Jesus did not exist? It's true he may not have done all the things that were attributed to him in the Gospels (on which see my recent blog posts), but very few scholars do not believe a historical Jesus existed. There's also quite a few contemporary non-Christian accounts referring to him.