The entire religion was created by fanatics in the Middle East borrowing from all of the religions preceding them and all based on invisible beings only know to themselves.  They frightened the Roman Empire rulers of their invisible power with miracle claims unsubstantiated by anyone else.  Since the rulers were dictators, they could declare this religion as the one and only for the entire empire.  Once that was established, Pope Innocent 1 documented all of the fantastic tales from 300 to 400 years previous into highly edited script.   Thus was created the New Testament to add to the other One God religion, Judaism, to create the bible.  With the human military might of the Roman Empire, the fanatics now had real power to impose their arbitrary dogma on all residents of the same Empire.  This scam is just another of the same concocted from the beginning by similar power-mad "apostles" using fear to drive all others into their all-encompassing control.