Is Christianity based on older myths?

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I haven't looked into Paul, so here's a chance for Steve to actually demonstrate something properly. Maybe there's decent evidence that Paul was a real person. Can you find any?

Well, someone wrote those things.
And it seems that some of the texts attributed to Paul have enough similarities for experts in the field to attribute them to the same person... while others are very likely to have been written by someone else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_...e_epistles

There is wide consensus, in modern New Testament scholarship, on a core group of authentic Pauline epistles whose authorship is rarely contested: Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon. Several additional letters bearing Paul's name lack academic consensus: Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Timothy, and Titus. Scholarly opinion is sharply divided on whether the former two epistles are the letters of Paul; however, the latter four - 2 Thessalonians, as well as the three known as the "Pastoral Epistles" - have been labeled pseudepigraphical works by most critical scholars.