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The Bible stories borrow heavily from Egyptian religious myths and beliefs regarding gods and pharaohs. Same stories, rebooted with new cast members that are more relatable. Any new diety had to demonstrate similar power supernatural abilities as a pharaoh to be legit, and the one big closing act of every pharoah is resurrection followed by deification. Same story, new cast members. Ancient story tellers also made reboots.

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"Same stories, rebooted with new cast members that are more relatable." This isn't true at all and I'm curious at what gave you that idea? Specifically I mean of stories with the names changed between Egyptian religion and Christianity/Judaism.

It's the recent "Zeitgiest" conspiracy theory "documentaries" that float around on the internet. They just note similarities with the New Testament and old Egypto-Greco-Roman myths/cultic practices and say "See? This is where it came from".

You're right; it's not based on and scholarship or methodology. It's just simple associational reasoning. "These two things are similar, so therefore they are the same".

one big closing act of every pharoah is resurrection followed by deification.

Boyle wasn't speaking about Jesus' ressurection.

No one invents a story of how man is utterly depraved and incapable of making himself right before God.

Why not? People invent all kinds of stories. That type of story doesn't even take much imagination. Telling people that they are deficient in some intangible way and that you have the only cure is a very common way to con people.

... isn't this a common theme in Eastern and Mesopotamian mythologies?

Do you have an example?

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