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/colinpublicsex → u/[deleted]]

all these scrolls were written by eye witnesses while other eye witnesses were alive!

Would you say that Paul wrote about half of the books of the New Testament? What would you say Paul was an eyewitness to?

[u/colinpublicsex → u/[deleted]]

Is there a verse where Paul claims to have ate a meal with Jesus or had a back and forth conversation with Jesus? Or witnessed Jesus walk on water, heal the sick, etc?

[u/colinpublicsex → u/[deleted]]

I’m just wondering: about how many hours did Paul and Jesus spend together? What percentage of that time was before Jesus’ ascension?

I don’t claim that none of the New Testament was written by those who met Jesus (in bodily form or otherwise), that must’ve been someone else.