Doesn’t help that the bible was written centuries after actual events. Can you imagine people today writing something from last week? It would be a mess.
The New Testament gospels were written by witnesses. Grated, it was compiled, perhaps, decades later. As I read them, especially Luke who explicitly states as much, the gospels were written “ that the world may know”.
“Doesn’t help that the bible was written centuries after actual events”
Not most of the Bible. Genesis and perhaps Job. The books of the Prophets, the Pslams and Proverbs were certainly written in real time.
The Gospels were only written a few decades after Christ went to Heaven. The Epistles in the New Testament and Revelation were in real time.