Ok wow, I dont even know where to begin.Putting your "hundreds of accounts to back the stories of the New Testament" aside, lets look at some FACTS to dispel them.
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The Israelites did not come from Egypt but emerged from the local population.
There was no ancient 'Jewish Empire'. Jerusalem in 10th century BC was barely a village of mud-brick huts and cave dwellings.
Kings David and Solomon are purely mythical characters – warrior/priest heroes, invented in the 6th century BC.
Herod the Great was a real king – but he did not massacre any babies. He was an astute and successful ruler. His massive building program included the so-called 'Wailing Wall', erroneously ascribed to 'Solomon'.
Following a star would lead you round in circles.
Nazareth did not exist in the 1st century AD – the area was a burial ground of rock-cut tombs.
The first believers in Jesus maintained he was a sun-god in the sky. Only later did he acquire a death, a life and finally a birth.
'You say we worship the sun; so do you.'
Church Father Tertullian ('Ad nationes'😉 (160-220AD)
The sun 'dies' for three days on December 22nd, the winter solstice, when it stops in its movement south, to be born again or 'resurrected' on December 25th, when it resumes its movement north.
Nothing in the 'Christian message' was original. It was a vulgarised paganism, debased by religious intolerance. The early Christian sects attacked each other as energetically as they attacked the pagans.
The composite 'Jesus Christ' character – god, man, king, carpenter, conqueror, peace-maker, dispenser of justice, advocate of love – was assembled to try and unify a fragmented and fractious messianic religious movement.
The original Mary was not a virgin. The idea was borrowed from pagan goddesses.
There never was just one Christianity. Out of the milieu of religiosity that infected the Roman world, dozens of competing and conflicting Jesus/Sun-god/Mystery cults emerged
The 12 disciples are as fictitious as their master, invented to legitimise the claims of the early churches.
Writing gospels was a popular literary form, producing dozens of fantastic stories which competed with Greek romantic fiction. Political considerations in the late 2nd century led to the selection of just four approved gospels and the rejection of others.
The Church expropriated the resources – both human and material – which might have defended Roman civilization. While an indolent army of clerics lived on the state, the impoverished legions degenerated into a peasant militia.
The barbarian tribes that overran the weakened Roman Empire were, for the most part, Christianized; the forces that opposed them, pagan.
Once a particular Christianity – hierarchical and authoritarian – became wedded to the Roman state, it became a force of brutal repression. This so-called 'orthodoxy' suppressed and persecuted its 'heretical' opposition.
A triumphant Christianity was the active agent in destroying knowledge and access to learning. An ignorant and impoverished population was more readily subjugated by Princes of the Church.
...and on and on and on.
Close your bible and open a history book.
Or check out this bible:
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/