Is Christianity based on older myths?

[Chas]

I don't care if you believe the events of Jesus' life actually happened or not. But the consequences of rejecting the gospels is that a significant number of people intentionally lied. Then the question is to what end? This all goes toward the probability assessment of whether the first Christians believed in the actual key events in Jesus' life.

"Lied' is the wrong word. "Wove tales" would be more apt.

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Coincidence? Are you saying god is a plagiarist?

You do realize that the people that could actually read and write back then were the elite that usually had access to libraries of material so the authors having access to previous myths is not only plausible but probable?

So you are saying Galilean fisherman probably had access to libraries (in their language) in order to tell Paul some lies. Or are you saying Paul was the mastermind and got the disciples to change their stories 20 years later to match something he concocted from these scrolls he may or may not have had access to?

Or how about:
that there weren't any Galilean fisherman;
or that Paul never spoke with them;
or the Galilean fisherman exaggerated;
or Paul misunderstood the Galilean fisherman;
or Paul exaggerated?

You are a tad too credulous.