How much of Christianity is fact and how much of it is myth. A case in point is the divinity of Jesus. Paul did refer to Jesus in the Bible as the son of God but we do not know for sure whether he meant it literally or figuratively.
Ascribing divinity to kings in the ancient world was fashionable. The pharaohs of Egypt claimed they were divine. So did some of the Roman emperors. Julius Caesar was one of them. In Japan, emperors were divine until very recently. Was Jesus given the divinity status because of the trend in ancient time.
The divinity of Jesus and his son ship of God was suspiciously similar to a Greek legend when a god descended on earth and impregnated the goddess Olympia. From this union, a baby god, Zeus, was born without an earthly father. So a child born to Mary, without an earthly father must be a baby god as well. Paul was one of the advocates of Jesus divinity.
The original gospel of Jesus written in Aramaic was taken to Greece, translated and given the title
Evagelion . It was later taken to Rome, translated again and renamed Bible. As the holy book moved westward to Europe, it picked up on the Greek and Roman beliefs
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