What were Jesus and early Christians like?

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I'm coming round to the idea that jesus could be "histrocal" in some loose sense, but his life story is mythical.

It may have originally been based on some asswipe, but it's got so twisted by the time it hits paper that it no longer resembles the guy it was based on. Now it coincides with him, maybe, in so few ways as to apply quite possible to many "jesuses" of that age. And what we have is a life story that's a mixture of previous myth and brand new myth, trying to match jesus up with the Old Testament.

So it's a win for all, sort of. (If my analysis is worth anything.) There could well be a HJ, but he's no longer identifiable. And we have a life story which is almost entirely mythical. He's myth, moot and "historical". A triple double, in basketball terms, if I said them all ten times for some reason.