Is Christianity based on older myths?

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He knew, met with, and corresponded with actual disciples of Jesus. So for your theory to work, the actual eyewitnesses to Jesus' life would have had to lie to Paul who passed it on in his letters. The eyewitnesses also wrote letters (at least John, Peter, and James' survived) where they lied.

OK, let's play this game for a second. How old do you think, the disciples were when Jesus died? How old is Paul supposed to have been when he corresponded with disciples?

How do you make ends meet, given that the average life expectancy at that time and region was about 30?

I'm willing to give you all that. Maybe Paul met a real old fart, who claimed to have walked with Jesus. What level of education do you think, the average jew under roman rule had at that time? Do you think, that someone like Peter, being a fisherman, could even write his own name, let alone enter into correspondence with Paul?