Since you mentioned it. Ancient Pagans as early as 600 BC believed in various levels of divinity, with miraculous powers, coming down and going up to its home in the sky. Divine beings cared about people, listened to and answered their prayers and gave them the power to prophesy. Even gave them a better deal in the eternal life that comes after death.
Christianity is a product of it’s time and place. Christianity is an ancient Pagan religion.
When Osiris is said to bring his believers eternal life in Egyptian Heaven, contemplating the unutterable, indescribable glory of God, we understand that as a myth.
When the sacred rites of Demeter at Eleusis are described as bringing believers happiness in their eternal life, we understand that as a myth.In fact, when ancient writers tell us that in general ancient people believed in eternal life, with the good going to the Elysian Fields and the not so good going to Hades, we understand that as a myth.
When Vespatian’s spittle healed a blind man, we understand that as a myth.
When Apollonius of Tyana raised a girl from death, we understand that as a myth.
When the Pythia , the priestess at the Oracle at Delphi, in Greece, prophesied, and over and over again for a thousand years, the prophecies came true, we understand that as a myth.When Dionysus turned water into wine, we understand that as a myth.
When Dionysus believers are filled with atay, the Spirit of God, we understand that as a myth.
When Romulus is described asthe Son of God, born of a virgin, we understand that as a myth.
When Alexander the Great is described as the Son of God, born of a mortal woman, we understand that as a myth.
When Augustus isdescribed as the Son of God, born of a mortal , we understand that as a myth.
When Dionysus is described as the Son of God, born of a mortal woman, we understand that as a myth.
When Scipio Africanus is described as the Son of God, born of a mortal woman, we understand that as a myth.
So how come when Jesus is described as the Son of God,born of a mortal woman,according to prophecy,turning water into wine,raising girls from the dead, andhealing blind men with his spittle,and setting it up so His believers got eternal life in Heaven contemplating the unutterable, indescribable glory of God, and off to Hades—er, I mean Hell—for the bad folks...how come that’s not a myth.
And how come, in a culture with all those Sons of God, where miracles were science, where Heaven and Hell and God and eternal life and salvation were in all the temples, in all the philosophies, in all the books, were dancing and howling in street festivals, how come we imagine Jesus and the stories about
him developed all on their own, all by themselves, without picking up any of their stuff from the culture they sprang from, the culture full of the same sort of stuff?It is a clear fact that ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, at LEAST 900 years before Jesus, shared standard ideas about Gods and their powers and place in the universe and Christianity simply adopted those ideas, and applied them to Jesus.
BTW my REAL NAME is a figure in Norse Myth. 
