> The only difference with say bible is that nobody sat for a while few centuries after (if anything actually happened at all, pretty skeptical here) and wrote

> The only difference with say bible is that nobody sat for a while few centuries after (if anything actually happened at all, pretty skeptical here) and wrote it down clearly enough so that major deviations from that point were hard to justify. Um. The New Testament is generally dated to the late first century AD, which is to say, within living memory of Jesus. We have fragments of those texts that date to around AD 200, and several complete copies from the late 300s. > I'd even say Vatican would rather destroy such evidence, no sense keeping such an atomic bomb around in vaults. Rather than destroying such evidence, they keep them in their vaults, and they've even digitized them so you can see them online: https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1209 https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1209