Is Christianity based on older myths?

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We need to iterate to Steve that, again, taking simply contemporary accounts of 'Jesus' as the benchmark for his existence, the amount of evidence for him being real is 0.

The gospels were written anonymously. Nobody knows who authored them, only that that they appear several decades after Jesus supposedly rezzed. Just as likely they were written by a group of people working in collusion than they were by one. 100x more likely they were written by people who had absolutely no contact with any of the events they describe, or any of the people that lived through them.

Paul is equally an unknown. We know next nothing about him either.

Steve, we will never be convinced by a story with so many holes in it. The reality of what and why is most likely unknowable, but presuming the message behind this story is 100% factual is naive, bordering on delusional. Nobody can say for certain that this guy existed or didn't exist, but there's no reason to presume he existed, and certainly no reason (or evidence) to presume he was divine or had magical powers. I, as someone who rejects your unevidenced claims, needs evidence to make me doubt my position and be open to yours. And that's it.