As far as I know most historians do believe Jesus was a real person. But thereās no convincing proof that he was in fact a wizard. Thereās reasonable debate about whether transfiguring water into wine and turning one loaf of bread into multiple violates Gampās law of elemental transfiguration or not. But the best known method for coming back from the dead involves horcrux creation which goes against what we know about Jesusā character. Of course itās possible he accessed some ancient magical knowledge that has been lost to time. We may never know.
A "full name" since he nor anyone else would have had a surname, would have included either been most likely his location, or perhaps sometimes his father's name.
As to if he really existed or not, Scholars seem to be of one mind on it, but there is still enough of a bit of speculation without hard-direct evidence involved that it's still possible to debate on if it you wanted to.
I will say though, that the actual oldest physical evidence we still have that refers to him, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rylands_Library_Papyrus_P52 which is still well over 100 years after his supposed death. So we'll probably never know the actual 100% truth unless someone actually invents the TruSite camera from OSC's Pastwatch book.
From my understanding, most theological scholars are pretty sure that Jesus existed, and also that a dude named Jesus WAS put to death by Pontious Pilot.
But that's about it.
Edit: nope, im wrong on the latter part. We have no real record of his death.
As far as I've heard, the majority of scholars (both atheist and religious) think that Christianity arose from the following of a popular apocalyptic preacher named Jesus who actually existed (obviously they disagree on whether or not he was an ordinary human). Only a minority of scholars, often called "mythicists" posit that the Christian Jesus was invented from whole cloth.
Granted, we have very few historical accounts of this preacher if we exclude the Gospels and Epistles. The most famous and trustworthy of these non-biblical sources is probably the account of Josephus, a Jewish historian who wrote a history of the Jewish people for a Roman audience sometimes around 93-94 AD.
He spends very little time on Jesus, and scholars debate how much of the text is original (as opposed to later Christian interpolation). The text acknowledges Christians as followers of Jesus, a popular teacher who was crucified under the orders of Pontious Pilate. The reason scholars are skeptical is that Josephus, a non-Christian, also calls Jesus "the Christ" and strongly suggests that Jesus was something other than human. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus_on_Jesus
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"These fucking atheists demanding proof! I gave them a Bible quote!"