Christians made a highly sensational and easily refutable claim, yet no refutation was produced to kill the movement. Because the claims were obviously factual to tens of thousands living in the time and vicinity of the events in question. Fourth, key parts of the New Testament, including the life of Christ, are corroborated by non-Christian historians living during that period, including the Romans Suetonius, Tacitus, and Pliny the Younger, and by the Jewish historian Josephus. Fifth, the four Gospels harmonize and complement each other in a way that rings true as history. This is powerful evidence that the Gospels are history, not propaganda.
Christian faith is an informed faith.
This passage contains at least thirty points of correspondence to the career of Christ. All are highly precise. All are highly improbable to be applicable to any one person. Yet they all apply to Christ, and Christ alone, exactly. Skeptics once maintained that such prophetic scriptures must have been written after Christ.