Thanks for your reply, Sender. As for the ‘Bible’, it’s confusing and often self-contradictory because it was (the NT that deals with Jesus) complied multiple times to fit the narrative that the Paul’s Church wanted. And that was usually what Rome wanted. There were several other ‘Christian’ churches and writings, but the Jesus Paul created was pagan enough for later Church writers to build on. And Christianity became protected when Constantine made it the official religion of the Empire, so a group of bishops met in Nicaea in 326 to decide what writings would become the official Church Doctrine and what wouldn’t. A lot of writings that didn’t fit were discarded or destroyed. But it turned out that that ’Official’ Doctrine wasn’t final. Bishops met in Nicaea again around 386 to ‘finalize’ Church Doctrine, again. And anything that could be found written about Jesus, and there were a lot of teachings about him, that contradicted what the Church accepted was destroyed. And that was the final official Doctrine. Until Emperor Justinian needed the Church to help stabilize his power, so the ‘Jesus’ in the Church’ Doctrine was changed again, made even more pagan. The final Christianity of the Roman Catholic Church and its Jesus became a version of Mithraism, a much older religion that had a God with a human-born son who was also put to death and resurrected. 1,500 years earlier. The real Jesus taught that all God wants is mercy, for everyone to treat everyone else the way they would want to be treated. No worship of Jesus or claiming he was God or God’s equal; Jesus explicitly denied that. But the Church needed a central figure to claim it had the authority to bring you salvation. Which was a lie easy to perpetrate on illiterate masses just looking for a ‘God’, a ‘strongman’’ to save them from daily problems and especially from the ‘Hell’ the church warned people they’d be sent to if they didn’t accept Jesus as their ‘Lord and Savior’, so they could spend an eternity of bliss in ‘Heaven’. And Paul’s Jesus was easy to make even more pagan-like and easier for pagans (gentiles) to accept. Jesus had nothing to do with Heaven and Hell; they aren’t a part of Judaism. Anywhere in the NT that Jesus says anything about Heaven and Hell, he didn’t say. It would’ve been added later. Nothing in the NT was written while Jesus lived, or by anyone who knew him. That made it easy to change whatever writings were extant to suit the Church’s goals. And a Jewish Jesus would not have been popular with gentiles and not what the Church wanted. Heaven and Hell, among many other beliefs in ‘Christianity’, were pagan ideas borrowed from the Greeks and other cultures- primarily Persian and Sumerian religions but incorporating parts of them into ‘Christianity’ served the Church well politically and monetarily. And still does.

I will give Paul credit for one thing; if he hadn’t created his pagan Jesus, the world may never have known about an obscure Jewish rabbi named Jesus. Or to have the chance to learn what the real Jesus taught.