A ragtag group told a story in the diaspora about a guy that fit the hooks embedded in the now dissolved former religion’s texts. Half of the group did not care to even write or bother with the little reuse, but a few of these foreigners managed to scrape by selling a new religion to the more successful among the diaspora. They really weren’t very successful and most died as criminals and scammers. A few hundred years later, the whole thing really got started. It is quite likely that no Jesus ever existed. The mechanism that created him was simply a religious contingency plan for an insignificant minor cultural group.

So indeed, Jesus was used to try to convince the diaspora they were the children of god, but heaven was just another homeopathic as-seen-on-TV level product a few desperate people used to eat and gain shelter amongst their country persons. Most of these outstayed their welcome as one would expect under these circumstances. Paul was on sinking ships in tumultuous seas for a reason. People back then lived in the weather and knew the patterns well. The communities got together and bought Paul and others a one way ticket to heaven. Normal people don’t go jumping on the most dangerous form of transit in the worst season, or pay for passage on a vessel when they could spread the same message by commuting on foot. These were wanted men and scammers escaping to scam somewhere new.