Why believe the bible?

[Amarok]

Something outside the Bible? Okay. There were dozens of churches in dozens of cities across the Roman empire within 20 years of Jesus. They all believed the same thing that later appeared in the Gospels. Evidence for these churches are in first and second century docs like these. The mention of these churches in Acts and the Epistles complete a nice loop.

No they didn't all believe the same thing and even if they did it makes no difference
It didn't spread within 20 years and even if it had that's not evidence of a real event 
These documents are of low historical value so another strike out 

Fact is, we do know way more that you think. Demanding that we have non-religious-related docs is nonsense. 99.9% of all docs from the first century are gone. It is only docs that people cared about that were painstakingly preserved and copied on materials that had expiration dates.

No we don't and it's not nonsense you just don't like it because you want the bible to be the evidence .When it's the claim .