Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were put down into writing after the oral tradition had been around for a couple hundred years. There were followers of each disciple here.
The Letters of Paul appear to be authentic....
Josh
You have so many things wrong in that post that it's hard to see how you could come to your conclusions in any objective way. As Rock Chuck said, you're at least 50 years behind archeology's discoveries. But you're right about Paul -- if his letters are authentic (unless you define "authentic" differently than I understand it), then it's hard to conclude that later Christianity invented the deity of Christ, a belief St. Paul firmly held in the first century.
Some people investigate these things with their conclusion in mind at the beginning. Steve
