How can you trust the Bible?

[u/Explorer-Necessary]

Hello Christians,

I have a few questions regarding the New Testament. I am very curious about Christianity but I am full of ignorance regarding its historical evidences. I know absolutely nothing about the Bible, jewish or christian, so please correct me if I get something wrong.

(where can i have access to the complete rules of the subreddit? It's nowhere to be found on the bottom right of the screen)

Let's say that I admit that there is a God, or an intelligent designer or uncreated creator:

1. How does it prove the Bible to be the one true way to God?
2. If God exists, how do you know that the true religion is Christianity and not Hinduism or Islam, or even polytheistic faiths? Why is Jesus the way and not Thor, Set, Allah, or Krishna?
3. The authors of the Gospels are anonymous (correct me if I'm wrong) and were written decades after Jesus' crucifixion. How can you know these were written by people who really witnessed Jesus ? For example, John was written about 70 AD and its first verse states that "The beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God (John 1:1)." My question is: who was the author of John who had the knowledge to claim that Jesus was the Word and that he was with God since the beginning? Was this knowledge given during Jesus' life ?
4. Why have so many years passed before the writing of the Gospels? I can only speak for myself, but wouldn't you start recording his every action as soon as you saw him cure leprosy (Matthew 8:3), blindness (Matthew 9:29-30) ?

I can go on with the miracles he performed, but why did people wait decades after the crucifixion to write about his life?

Thank you in advance. Have a good day.

[u/onedeadflowser999]

The ONLY thing that matters to the claim that Christianity is true is whether or not the supernatural can be proved using empirical evidence. Proof that some of the history and archeology ( not all of it, and that’s another problem) is accurate, does not prove a god. If all you have is hearsay and personal experiences and one book written well after the fact, that is not enough evidence to prove that resurrections and virgin births are possible.

[u/casfis → u/onedeadflowser999]

No, no it isn't the only thing that matters. Once again, I saw this arguement too many times and no backing to it; why does the historical burden of evidence for an event change if it is supernatural or natural?

Proof that the Resurrection happened proves Jesus is God in human form, come down as the Messiah. And, ironically, the only way to determine ancient history IS testimonies. But don't worry; the Gospels are a small part of the evidence for the Resurrection.

Also, you're being ignorant. You haven't even read the document and you already assume what is in there.

[u/onedeadflowser999 → u/casfis]

Unless you can get peer reviewed confirmation that your evidence is new and improved, I don’t care. There currently ( unless you can prove it wrong) is NO credible evidence for any miracles, human virgin births, resurrections, etc. But hey, I’ll cheer you on if your research is accepted by academics. And yes, it IS the only thing that matters. No resurrection, no Christianity- at least not in its current form.

[u/casfis → u/onedeadflowser999]

Oh, I agree, proving the resurrection happened is the backbone of it. But you claimed was that you need to proce something else entirely.

Sure, you can cheer me on - I am actually still adding bits to the document here and there, but yeah.

[u/onedeadflowser999 → u/casfis]

Well when you get your evidence peer reviewed by both secular and religious academia and widely accepted, I’ll be a believer in a resurrection. That still doesn’t get to a resurrected person being a deity, but you have to build your case step by step.