Peter and Paul did write letters that are books in the NT, and they ARE believed to be authored by them.
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Hardly. Based on Church records from the time. Post-facto evidence is when people say "Saint Peter died in this year" and there is no contemporary evidence of his death.
http://catholic-resources.org/Bible/Evangelists.htm http://www.ichthus.info/CaseForChrist/01/intro.html http://rsc.byu.edu/archived/how-new...-sperry-symposium/8-who-really-wrote-gospels- All major Biblical study programs confirm that the authorship of the Gospels is ANONYMOUS.
You don't apparently know that the Gospels are only four of the books in the New Testament. Now you do.
Christianity was even more isolated a mere 70 years after the supposed death of Jesus than Cargo Cults are. Here we are in North America, talking about them, while even a millennium after the origin of Christianity most of the planet had hardly heard of it. In another 430 years, Cargo Cults could become the single largest religion on the planet. This is not "nearly the sort of refutation" you were looking for. It is exactly the sort you asked for.
This really is a pretty pointless distinction. What is the functional difference between a completely legendary account of a fictional person, and the completely legendary account of a real one?
Ummm...not. Christianity was not isolated--it was "subversive," but not isolated. You "nearly" hit the mark. Be happy with that.
Lack of evidence. There's no more supporting evidence for JEsus than there are any other mythical figures. Hey, maybe there really was a super strong guy named Hercules, who knows. Not a good bet to make though.