Therefore you have no clue what you are arguing over, because it's been defined by a faith even you admit is Mishuganah.
Hashev, you and I agree that the Jesus conjured by Rome in 325 c.e. by superstitious people completely ignorant of Jewish thought, belief, and expression and incapable of comprehending the figurative language of the prophets, the same figurative language used by the authors in writing the gospels, does not correspond to any real living being ever in existence, a false messiah of a false triune god with a false message of a false salvation that brazenly promises eternal life to those who do what the Torah explicitly teaches results in death.
However, just because people in 325 failed to comprehend the teachings of the NT, written hundreds of years earlier by Jews, does not mean the stories are false anymore than the failure of people to comprehend the teachings of the OT to this day means those stories are false.
What I have presented for you to consider is that the deeper implications of the words, expressions, stories, and parables of the Jesus written about in the gospels was based on an actual historical person who claimed to have received a revelation from God about the deeper implications of the words and subjects in the Law and was the awaited arch malakh that came in fulfillment of deuteronomy 18:18 .
And I also agree that the final conflict, as you said,
"is not physical warfare. The battle is between light (knowledge &truth) & darkness (ignorance, lies, & folly).", but the subject of that dispute between the Jesus written about in the gospels and the religious authorities of his time was about how to correctly interpret and apply the divine commands that leads to the promise of life fulfilled in this world and an assurance of a place in the "world to come" which is not about a future life on earth but is about permanent existence in the realm of God after life on earth ends, which conforms to expressed purpose of the prophet spoken of in deuteronomy 18:18, "And I will put my words into his mouth and
he shall convey all of my commands.".
The light (truth and knowledge) that Jesus died trying to teach people was that the law was figurative in nature, the subjects hidden, and as in kashrut was not literally about what you serve and eat for dinner (folly and ignorance) but was about what to teach and learn to retain purity of mind and become holy as God is holy. " The kingdom of God is like treasure lying
buried in a field. The man who found it,
buried it again.", " You strain at a gnat but swallow a camel", what goes into the mouth cannot defile you", why worry about what you eat and what you wear?", "eat my flesh", etc.
You can deny that Jesus ever existed at all, all that you like, but what cannot be denied is the truth revealed in his teachings, preserved in the written accounts, that is the only light and way to understand the words and subjects of the Law that reveals the wisdom of God to the person with even the least intelligence.