How Could Anyone Believe the Gospels Are Eywitness Accounts?

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So my question is, what in the world makes you think they are eyewitness accounts as opposed to stories handed down and assembled into books much later? Because everything about them suggests otherwise?

It's a convenient position to hold in order to give the conclusion they've already come to more authority?

That, or lack of interest; "The book sez it's the gospel of Matthew, therefore it must have been written by Matthew!"