Talk politics.

We're in agreement, but arguing like we're not. If Christ did not exist, the Scriptures are false, I'll grant. However, in the reverse, if the Scriptures are in no way accurate, then Christ did not exist (because everything the Scriptures say is in fact untrue, and they say he existed) and Christianity is at least untrue. So, to get back to the original point... you must defend some element of the scriptures' accuracy. So you can't just handwave away challenges to the accuracy of the scriptures as irrelevant.

Man it took a long time to get here from there.