Is Christianity based on older myths?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

If we use contemporary accounts of someone's existence as a benchmark, then the evidence for Jesus existing at all is 0. Nothing.

In answer to your question, Steve, as to why this 'Paul' (who we really know absolutely nothing about either) 'invented' Christianity, I never claimed he did. However, you have to also recognise that there's no reason to doubt that someone invented it in light of the fact that there's is nothing else to go on. Nothing. The constant flipping and switching in Paul's stories is also very suspect don't you think? There were no mentions of Jesus until around 60+ years after he died. 60 years! In those times that's almost 2 generations later!

That would be like us today only just starting to talk about Woodrow Wilson or something.

The only reference to Jesus is the bible. A book in which the references to Jesus were written anonymously and are uncited, and which clearly has a vested interest in supporting the idea that this Jesus guy existed. It's not evidence, it's a claim, and as such citing the bible as to why the bible is right is fallicious and immediately ignored.

And again, as already iterated, even if Jesus' existence was proven and everyone believed in his existence, that doesn't even begin to chip away at the overwhelming skepticism over his supposed divinity, to which there is just as little evidence (ie, 0).