Last time we looked at the Gospels viewing the destruction of the temple in 70CE as divine punishment for the Jews collaborating with the Romans to wrongfully kill Jesus. This was thought in the light of the two angels sent to Lot / Sodom and Gomorrah to test the people, after which the city was destroyed for the people demanding to rape the angels. Jesus in Paul is thus seen as a catalyst/testing angel in this sense

If Paul’s letters are early, we note Paul accusing Jews of killing Jesus in 1 Thessalonians. Paul thought Jesus was killed and then was buried and rose on the third day. Paul thought Jesus was the first fruits of the general resurrection harvest of souls at the end of the age. This fits nicely with the idea that Jesus was seen as the Godly Chosen Davidic messiah by his followers, but then brutally crucified as an insurgent, and so this murder was the catalyst for the final judgment that was underway.

In other words, it makes much more sense that Jesus existed on earth than the mythicist contention that he was only ever a celestial being in outer space.