TruthSurge, a former Christian turned atheist YouTuber, opens the first installment of a long-running series arguing that the Gospel of Mark is closer to fiction than history. His claim: Mark drew on Greek mythology's missing-hero-turned-deity motif and repurposed Old Testament stories and phrases as raw material for events and sayings later attributed to Jesus. He walks through literary precedents that predate and overlap with Mark's writing, laying out parallel structures and borrowed language side by side with the gospel text to make the case for deliberate literary construction rather than eyewitness reporting. The video is built entirely around Truthsurge's own narration, animation, and sound design, with no outside interviews or on-location footage. It functions as an opening argument rather than a complete case, explicitly asking viewers to withhold judgment until later parts add more evidence. The tone throughout is adversarial toward the gospels' reliability, treating embellishment and borrowed motifs as evidence of invention rather than history.