A lot of Atheist deconverted by reading the Bible.
Jesus’ most devout first century followers never owned a Bible, never read a Bible...because there was no Bible to be had or read. But these men and women turned the world upside down; they’re the reason that people worship Jesus today; and they never held a Bible because there was no Bible until the fourth century.
Parts of the old Testament date to around 500 BCE and most of it predated the early Christians and proto-christians so they had religious texts reflective of at least parts of the OT.
If your do not believe The Bible is at least the "inspired word of God", than yours is a minority position among Christians. Marcion allegedly put together the first cannon sometime in the second century, which supposedly included six of the original letter of "Paul" and a variant of Luke. It's still debate if Marcion's luke was a proto-Luke or an abridged version of Luke.
It's true, the variouis pre-christian sects didn't have any of the modern cannons, but they did have texts, of and were very skilled at forging new ones. Heck, there was at least 60 gospels that we know.....
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
