I'm sorry if I seem shallow, prejudiced or shortsighted.
You're right that you can find scholars for any point of view on the scriptures.
But may I offer one more argument: Luke 1:1-4 gives a statement by its author indicating it is third-hand in nature: Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught. It is clear that Luke is writing as a reporter; he worked hard to verify his sources to tell as complete and correct an account as he could. But I very much doubt Luke would have claimed to have produced an inerrant account!
Let me please conclude our friendly debate by saying what I think we both agree on: Jesus died, Jesus is risen, Jesus will come again! I base my faith in part on my own experience of the Holy Spirit, convicting me of sin and leading me away from it. But I also base my faith on the Scriptures. For example: All scholarship agrees 1 Corinthians is genuine. Paul wrote this wonderful epistle in the mid to late 50s. In it he affirms that Jesus rose from the dead and appeared to certain followers (Chapter 15). Paul was converted to Christianity only several years after Jesus, so from this it becomes absolutely clear that belief in the resurrection was present at the very beginning of the church.