With all due respect to the late Metzger, there are no "original texts" from which to confront anyone. The excuse that these points made by "Jesus mythicists" somehow "evaporate" in the light of such so-called original texts is pure folly on the part of the Metzger. Shame! He should know better than to write such drivel when he full well knew that most of his source texts were pure pseudepigrapha, ie. FORGERIES written in the name of the Apostles.

The Bible's Authors Are A LIE

https://keith-michael.medium.com/the-bibles-authors-are-a-lie-4eecfb79cada