Is Christianity based on older myths?

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In 160 Ad Justin Martyr wrote his apologia to Emperor Antoninus Pius. In this entire lengthy work he does not mention any Paul even once. This in spite of the claim that Paul brought xtianity to the Romans a century earlier.

There are big fucking problems with the Paul story.

Probably Paul was just one of many early evangelists, and his followers were not yet dominant in 160 AD?

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I tend to believe that Christianity originated with a historical Jesus, because that is the view of almost all historians, but I find the mythical Jesus more and more persuasive. Apparently the Gnostic Christians did not have their own churches. They went to the same churches as the non-Gnostic Christians. Supposedly they believed that Jesus was not actually human, but I wonder if they really meant that the whole gospel story was a myth? There are so many fanciful gospels written by devout Christians so early. Then there is the evidence that Judaism had gnostic sects - particularly in Egypt... I like the idea that Jesus was a mystical character invented by Gnostics who was supplied with a earthly biography that was later misunderstood to be reality.