(August 16, 2016 at 12:44 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:(August 16, 2016 at 12:21 pm)SteveII Wrote: 1. 27 documents of the NT that survived.
2. The fact there were churches across the Roman empire with 20 years of Jesus' death
3. The fact that the gospel writers (still within the lifetime of eyewitnesses) seemed to have even earlier writings available to them (putting those writings even closer to the actual dates.)
4. The fact that we have late first century and second century writers who believed and referred to both the earlier documents, people, and events.
Why are you assuming that these documents are unbiased and thus objectively truthful? These people were trying to build and spread a religion, correct?
Why would you want to build and spread a religion that was based on what you knew to be false? Is there any evidence or hint that might be the case in the 8-9 authors of the NT? The core belief of Jesus coming back from the dead is hardly an event to be mistaken or 'biased' with.