Is Christianity based on older myths?

[Mister Agenda]

If your conclusion is that Christianity is recycled myths and then your argument for that is "we don't know how Christianity started", a discussion becomes impossible and even the recycled myth hypothesis can't be reasoned.

Sure, the recycled myth thing is somewhat speculative, but not as speculative as the the 'it's all true' thing, which requires us to believe six impossible things before breakfast. It isn't our fault that you're uncomfortable with doubt and probability and shades of gray.

I can't argue the negative because most of you will allow me no facts to formulate any type of premise that won't be struck down with "prove it".

Us pointing out that your 'facts' aren't actually factual must be tough for you, but it's not unfair. One of the main things that makes a fact a fact is that it can be demonstrated to be true with evidence a reasonably skeptical person would find compelling.

I used to be a Christian. Then I read the Bible cover-to-cover twice. That left me an 'agnostic theist'. I still believed in God, but I couldn't believe a perfect being was responsible for that mess of a book.

It was apologetics that made me an atheist years later: the gradual realization that there are no good apologetics, every apologetic argument is fatally flawed. Educated, sincere, intelligent people trying to prove God convinced me that belief in God is not rationally justified. I felt sorry for the people twisting their minds into pretzels trying to reconcile God, the Bible, and reason.

I have sympathy for you. You're a true believer, but your task is to square the circle, and you can't support the supernatural elements of your religion any better than Hindus or Muslims or Taoists can the supernatural elements of theirs.