In response to you saying there are just words on a piece of paper, how do we know anything about history. We could say that about anything. We could say that for Alexander the Great. You may also say, history is written by the victor, Christians sure weren't the victor. And we don't just have new testament eyewitness accounts, other eyewitness accounts describe a "magician" going around healing ailments. This is exactly what they described Jesus as in the Bible, casting out demons by the prince of demons because they didn't understand his divinity. But I made a point in my previous debate and I will restate that. No other document in history written that close to the event they record. We also have thousands and thousands of Greek and Latin manuscripts. And one of the things we are almost positive of is that Jesus existed. But we have found his tomb, possibly found his burial clothe, but have found no remains.
Actually the new testament is so accurate they use it to make maps of the land around that time. Imagine sitting in your geography class and hearing, "alright class open up to Acts chapter two verse thirty-eight." But besides all that evidence, there has been miracles in my own life. You can choose to believe me if you want, if not that's fine. But my grandpa was given three months to live, put on morphine and sent home in a hospital bed. It is now fifteen years later, he has a zero cancer count and no addiction to any pain killer. It's just, how can you explain miracles like that? And archeological discoveries also prove the Bible, they have found numerous things to support the Bible. It is just to much evidence for me not to believe. And if God didn't exist, what would I believe in? That something set off a big bang, everything came from nothing, the small clumps of material smashed together creating a perfectly balanced gravitational pull between the planets? Then what? On the off chance that natural events hit something on earth ,creating amino acid that evolved in to prokaryotes. Then evolved in to eukaryotes which took almost 2 billion years. Then the Great Uncomformity happened where it looks like barely anything was slice for a billion years. Then the Cambrian explosion where almost every modern living creature evolved in 25 million years. I just can't my friend.
I just want to say I appreciate having an honest and open minded dialogue with you. If you ever want to skip over the fact that God exists and have a debate on whether He is good or not, let me know!
By the way I don't believe the earth was created in seven days. I believe in an old earth.