I consider the reality and the historicity…the humanity…of those who wrote the original Christian documents, those who were eyewitnesses and closest to Jesus. Wavering and impulsive and cowardly Peter who followed, then unfollowed, then followed again after the resurrection, even preaching in the streets of Jerusalem. Can one imagine their own brother convincing them that he was the son of God…? James was convinced of that, and that itself is convincing. Paul was a persecutor of Christians and a Jewish wreckin’ machine of their faith, but he became a follower of Jesus himself. And John saw inhumanity and cruelty over his long life that is unimaginable to many of us, but was still convinced that God is love.
Different people who wrote separate and independent accounts of what they saw and experienced. They weren’t writing the Bible, they were simply documenting the events that were happening in each of their lives.
