What I find interesting is the idea that stories in the Bible predate Christianity (i.e. Old Testament stuff) and are just word of mouth stories that people passed down as a social code describing a good way to live and the pitfalls to society if we do not. And that similar stories exist across cultures and religions. If I'm objective and not hoping for one outcome to be true it's perfectly plausible that "Jesus" was just an opportunistic (but perhaps still altruistic and well intended) personality cult that had not been seen at his levels of renown in centuries. That could be just it. Maybe he was just a social revolutionary and realized we were living wrong, valuing the wrong things in life. But a religious cult sprang up, intentionally or unintentionally. 

The Odyssey too and all that stuff. Interesting word of mouth wisdom.