The gospels are straight fiction. That "why hast thou forsaken me" business is a psalm, regurgitated. I mean, layers of ridiculousness, right? It' all supposed to be "true word of god," yet half of the the words are all ritualistic and devoid of meaning...
As for myself, I contend that "Paul" existed, either as an individual or as a movement - and looking at the earliest footprints of Paul, when there's only one set of prints in the desert sand, those are the days when Paul is not hallucinating.
Scope this: For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: - I Thessalonians 2:14-16
How does YHWH do it in Job? Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. Job 1:6
That's right. The oldest scripture gets five lines into it before creating a villain; Paul waits to the second chapter in this, a rough draft for Romans. And Romans is the whole ball of wax.
As for myself, I contend that "Paul" existed, either as an individual or as a movement - and looking at the earliest footprints of Paul, when there's only one set of prints in the desert sand, those are the days when Paul is not hallucinating.

Scope this: For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: - I Thessalonians 2:14-16
How does YHWH do it in Job? Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. Job 1:6
That's right. The oldest scripture gets five lines into it before creating a villain; Paul waits to the second chapter in this, a rough draft for Romans. And Romans is the whole ball of wax.