Christians, would you have saved Jesus, if you had he chance?

[madog]

I think it more likely a new church was formed and then they created the myth .... [1]

Considering the similarities to previous mythologies, I think that's highly likely. [2] The story was just plausible enough so that there was bound to be plenty of people who would have actually been alive who it "could have been". Once you remove all the stuff that obviously didn't happen, of course. Not a problem back then though I imagine. [3]

By what criteria and evidence to you judge this likelihood?

1) Is that something the historical evidence about 1st century Palestinian Jews would lead you to believe likely? Are Jewish people of the 1st century the sort of people you would expect to create a myth? Are they the sort of people you would expect to accept the myth to the degree they actually did? If not, what leads you to believe it likely?

2) Same questions as #1, for you Rob.

3) Not even a problem for the Jews of 1st century Palestine?

Trying to get a consistent story from several witnesses a week after an event is hard enough, never mind a whole period of time, with multiple events decades later ....

If there was an illiterate or plain lazy Jesus that wanted his message communicated down the ages in writing he would have asked his disciples to do so .....

That they didn't do it for decades after the alleged event/s  is very strong evidence that they weren't asked to by a Jesus character ... I doubt they would have been so dismissive of a request from an apparent "Son of God" and just put the writing off for decades ... Apparently they thought this guy was God, and thus I would expect any request to be done with the utmost urgency, not I'll do it mañana, (Spanish for a tomorrow that is sometime in the future) a mañana that apparently was decades in the future .. 

Think about it, you appear to be an intelligent person ...