The Deceptive Mechanisms

[Undeceived]

Read the Gospels and Josephus side-by-side and tell me which one sounds more like genuine history.

Both check out with other sources. There are references to places and people that turn out to be real, and no contradictions. Where do you get your idea of how Roman historians write? Josephus' style and Mark's style are not so different from Tacitus or Suetonius or Livy. If Mark’s account pays extra attention to Jesus’ actions it’s because he has already been convinced by his actions that Jesus was God. If you had been in his position, would you have written differently?

It's not an uncommon motif for man to die for what he believes in, which has nothing to do with what's true or not.

Of course it's not, but the fact they do makes the gospels’ case stronger than contemporaneous myths’. We're not trying to prove anything with black and white evidence. But some evidence makes it more likely that certain events are true. Enough small clues and it becomes unreasonable to chalk events up to coincidence or conspiracy.

these Scriptures had been subjected to severe abuse in their interpretation

The article relies on this assertion. Does it provide any evidence in its support?

And yet myths took off still. You've disproven your own argument therefore leaving the doors open still.

Took off? They're dead now. They never left their originating culture. Christianity is one of the few belief systems to have leapt cultures.