The authors of the New Testament documents, especially the eyewitnesses, took the time to document the life of Jesus so that people in the first century…during the time when these events happened…would know with certainty what had happened so their confidence and trust would be anchored to an actual event and to a real person. They wanted to ensure that it was anchored to that event ~ the resurrection of Jesus. That’s what launched Christianity.
They weren’t writing religious literature. They were documenting history as it unfolded. They were actually documenting someone's life, and they were living in the time when these things happened, and these things happened among them.
The New Testament texts are historically reliable documents. And the New Testament that we have now…in the Bible’s of today…are in agreement with the New Testament that has been preserved in more ancient manuscripts than any other ancient work of literature in all of history. And there are literally thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of ancient New Testament manuscripts that biblical scholars have used for comparison to verify that fact.
Again, skeptics dance around this fact because it makes em’ feel uncomfortable and it completely blows their position outta the water regarding the New Testament documents. The only alteration that has occurred is on the part of the skeptics themselves, who continue to intentionally try to alter this verifiable fact of the matter. And the only “problems” are the one’s that the skeptics clearly have with this verifiable fact of the matter.
