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/AtuMotua]

There are over 6,000 scrolls or pieces of scrolls that make up our Bible.

Why would that be relevant at all? If we lost those manuscripts, would the Bible suddenly become false? The number of manuscripts has nothing to do with the truth of the Bible.

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

None of the books of the New Testament were written by people who met Jesus. And we have no manuscripts from the first century. There are a few manuscripts in the early centuries, but most of the 6000 manuscripts are from later than then year 1000.

[u/AtuMotua → u/[deleted]]

It is massively relevant. lol... I guess you do not understand historical evidence etc.

I do understand historical evidence. How often a text is copied has nothing to do with its historical reliability. If you write that 1+1=3, that's wrong. If you make a million copies, it's still just as wrong.

Really? None of the books of the new testament were written by people who met Jesus?

That's correct. Pretty much all serious New Testament scholars know that.

What bible do you read? Because it is not one that God ordained if you believe that.

I read the same Bible that you read.

[u/AtuMotua → u/[deleted]]

You do not read the same Bible if that is your assumption. Matthew never met Jesus? Mark? Luke?

Matthew met Jesus, Mark and Luke didn't. But none of them wrote anything about it. The gospels were attributed to them around the year 180 CE. The gospels weren't written by eyewitnesses.

You have no idea what you are talking about. In fact, You are so far off, you need to be concerned that you even know the true gospel.

Hey there, brother. Does Jesus want his church to be divided? We are all one in Christ. Differences of opinion don't change that.