As I stated, if what you have posited here were, indeed, facts, we wouldn’t have had 2000 years of Christianity, neither would we be having our discussion.
And your conjecture about how I’ve come to believe what I believe is incorrect. IN FACT, it was, and continues to be an inquiry after FACTS that persuaded/persuades me...That, and an empty tomb.
WE have had more than 2000 years of numerous religions therefor by logic they must all be correct because they survived for so long.
BAD LOGIC. LAZY THINKING.
You came to believe what you believe because that is how you were brought up. Muslims believe what they believe because that is how they were brought up.
Therefor - you BOTH must be right.
I worked with archeologists in the middle east and I uncovered MANY empty tombs. Tombs were only a place to store a body until it desiccated and then the bones were cleaned and put in a carved stone box and sometime kept in the house and sometime buried.
YOU were not there and you rely upon people 2000 years to provide accurate details and for those details to remain consistent all this time.
History proves that time ALWAYS changes how facts are interpreted and reported and can not be relied upon.
We can’t even keep our own prejudices and biases inline about things that happened as recently as 20 years so how can an undocumented document be relied on after 2000 years.
NONE of the manuscripts exist from that time because 99.9% of the people were not literate and all facts were passed from one person to another for thousands of generations and you expect accuracy just because it is said to be the word of God?
God did not write the Bible ,,,,, man did. Man is extremely fallible. If God had written it down and I could see the original document then and only then would I accept what you believe to be true.