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Jesus.
Mister Tickle.
Oh, sorry. I thought we were listing our favourite fictional characters.
Nobody with any integrity to them denies the existence of Jesus
The historical person may have existed. The mythical figure I know you're talking about is a fiction.
The historical person most likely existed, according to historians. I couldn't find any evidence that Matthew and John's accounts of Him and Mark, Luke, Peter and Paul's writings of Him are fictional
Isn't the fact that those accounts disagree with each other, and are in fact sometimes contradictory (and that important stuff such as trinity, holy ghost, all came much later) cause to suspect that a lot of core modern Christian tenets are not based in historical truth?
Certainly there was a historical Jesus who did some stuff and inspired a religion. That much I think is indisputable.
They don't contradict/disagree with each other and the trinity is mentioned early on in the Bible. First in Paul's letters, then in Matthew's Gospel.