You are playing at a sophism.
That really depends. You are trying to make an explicate comparison to the the text of the new testament and they are very much not the same thing.If your wife told you something do you question her integrity as to the validity of what she has said?
First we would have to define what you mean about my wife's comments.
Now if I asked her something serious or even in passing about say genetics, or statistics or biology or plants where she is an expert - as in do think using a Poisson distribution in this model is a workable ideal or Huh looks the tree has rust is it too late buy a fungus treatment. I would take her at her word
If she says hey it was negative 20 degrees F the last two days and my BMW is acting a bit weird will you take a look and see if maybe the battery is dying and it need to deal with it? I would believe that and say well could be lets go have a look after all as far as I know the battery is the one that came the car and it well could on its last gasps
Or she might say I almost hit an elk today on the drive home. Perfectly likely
Or she might say you really tneed o get on getting a hair cut you let it go too long and your hair standing up and you like you are planning on being Einstein for Halloween.
Or hey look the ravens are back and building another giant nest in out tree. That is some serious effort
All those just gets a nod.
But here is the thing none of that is the new testament and what you would assert it is. None of that is fantastic or supernatural or even paranormal. And none of it a preposterous claim to be an absolutely impossible recollection of what somebody said.
Now my wife's collaborator, coworker and friend unfortunately died in a avalanche while skiing. Now he was a a bit of character and liked to barge into her office and rant to my wife over the day - about irritating admirative stuff/work, annoying post docs, how his science was going or not, politics (knowing she was a liberal lefty and would agree with him), what he was reading or some new TV show etc. So they worked together for nearly a decade. And were friends. But if she locked herself up and produced a text claiming to be a verbatim reprisal all the stuff let's call him 'William' bust into her office and ranted about, anything and everything that was on his mind over nearly a decade - no I would not believe her at all. I would believe some stories were close to the mark and other less. But 'William' is dead. The coworkers who worked with him dispersed and they are not friends and I have no way of finding them and her stories are mostly of conversations just between the two of them... So the truth of her recollections is now sort of unverifiable now and forever. Its simply a matter of how she chooses to recall it. I would have no reason to call any of her stories if she told them a lie per say about her interactions with 'William' But equally have no reason to suspect she took short hand notes of every conversation or interaction they ever had. I very much have any number of reasons to believe nobody hanging about with Jesus could or did take any notes on what he said or did.
But let's take a different story where somebody actually has a skin in the game if you will. My Uncle. Now you see my mother and even all his closest friends - who I have known forever and my relatives who knew him will tell you he (Uncle) had shall we a say temper as a teen. They all agree he mellowed over time but was a hot head something fierce in school and bit after. That brings us to French fries. What you say? Well apparently the fries made by the school back in the 50s were quite good. Thus famously in lore my uncle stabled an acquittance in the hand with a fork (a real steel one) at lunch when he tried snatch one of his fries. Now here is the thing my uncle absolutely denies the incident ever happened. My mother absolutely declares she was at the table and he put the fork right through the soft middle of the guy's hand all the way into the table and so does my father was also a nominal eye witness. Of the 6 other Polacks who all grew up on the same block and are his friends and say they were there close or at the table 4 say yep he stabled the guy (how badly varies) . One says he only sorta pretend stabled him and one say he did not notice. But the thing is the secondary testimony from family and other friends at wakes and what is clear everyone believes he forked a guy in the hand over fries. But of course when I questioned everyone the actual list of who was supposedly right there or just going and coming from the table nothing really adds up So and so A is no so and so B was off getting a coke, but so and so B is absolutely sure he saw it. So we a have really Rashomon like tale and that's just for one lunch event you would think would stay in your mind.
In either case we are still judging stories without fantastical elements. But the NT has those in spades the exact thing and on a scale that could hardly avoid notice but surprisingly does not except in the self reliant retold gospels. We are facing not just unreliable witness testimony but unreliable witness testimony about events that would be remarked on by any non believer sources and that simply does not exist. If text includes a completely unexplainable darkening of the sun across the whole land 3 hours than nobody seems to have remarked on its credibly is a bit shabby.
In many cases yes. But thankfully that information right or wrong could be verified by other sources.Did you question your teachers at school about what they were teaching you?
Umm the god of the OT and NT is deeply underwhelming. So yes I care not to think I much have to answer to him given his actions not sure who should be the judge. At least until he explains Jericho to my satisfaction... And certainty your god the Augustine god of original sin his hardly a worthy judge of anyone.Isn't it a matter that you don't want to believe what is written because you personally don't want a God in your life especially One to Whom you will have to answer when you draw your last breath?