Originally Posted by Neapolitan

The Gospels are not ancient oral traditions where the writers of the Gospel wrote them down hundreds of years later where generation and generations pass them on by word of mouth unitl it was written down and then attributed to a writer. With Jesus there were 4 witness in the form of the writers of the 4 Gospels that were written within a few decades after the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So in this case people do when and where these stories started. That is not true with mythological character who origins are lost to the ages.