Were the Gospel accounts based on the testimony of eyewitnesses who were still alive when the Gospels were written?

Three questions to ask your history teacher when they claim you can't trust the Gospels.

Are the New Testament books an arbitrary or personal selection of what was available? Or is there more to it than that?

Are the Gospels full of contradictions? What would have been seen as normal standards of trustworthy historical writing at that time?

Did the early Christian communities apply Jesus's teaching to the problems they faced or alter the facts to fit their agendas?

The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.

How big are the differences between the hand-written copies of the Gospels' accounts of Jesus? Do these undermine what we can know about…

How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?

How can anyone believe the New Testament account of the life of Jesus, seeing that it was written so long after His death? There seems to…