The religious mind does not invent — it plagiarises! Nothing in the Jesus story is original, every aspect of Christianity has been copied from earlier sources.
AD 36 – Was THAT a year?!
Distorting history for Jesus #2 — Hard man Pilate made a softie!
Herod Agrippa I – Mild Jewish King made a tyrant!
Rationalising Jesus into the merely human requires a great deal of invention!