God does express himself to mankind, through mankind. We are all creative beings. Whether Jesus was a real person or not is irrelevant, because what he realized about himself is true of all of us. The moment we realize we are creative beings capable of anything through imagination, the whole game changes. Jesus was only special in the fact that he realized this about himself. But the foolish masses idolized him instead of learning from him just as all the foolish masses throughout the Bible stories worshipped their own graven images. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you, and according to your faith is everything done to you. I’m starting to think mass printing the stories of the ancients was a bad idea. You present those things as factual history rather than psychological dramas designed to teach you about your own nature and the most interesting conversations on the topic become tripe about whether some death shroud was real or not. Ugh. Jesus gave us the secret to everything and this is where people choose to spend their time arguing. So tired of it.