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Just give up. The moment you try to make serious progress you get a religious freak who starts writing apologia about why the Roman's would not have had the capability to write these stories without God. They like to hide themselves too, like get very interwined into the education system before we know they're messing up the education and research.

I think the most convincing evidence to myself (and I have very ltitle knowledge at all) is that Paul was associated with the Roman Empire, Paul was trained in philosophy, (which is weird for a Christian), and Paul suffered for lviing a life of sin. (Later denominations focused much more on following the Bible to avoid suffering from human biology)

Peter and Paul were both important to establishing the start of the Catholic church too, but it's complicated and I'm missing so much history. And everytime I try to read about it, I get lost in tangents on religious apoligia