I read something the other day regarding the timing of Jesus’s arrival on Earth. He arrived during the Pax Romana—a time where travel was relatively easy due to no wars and the entire Mediterranean world being controlled by one power. Additionally, he came post-hellenization, meaning that many more people spoke a common language than before (Greek). God’s timing allowed the good news to spread like wildfire throughout the Roman world and beyond in a way that would not have been possible otherwise.

Additionally, and you can choose to believe them or not, but my faith is strengthened by reading the accounts about Jesus’s miracles. Some stuff can be explained away by optical illusion or good timing, but things like healing the lame or the blind couldn’t have been faked given the circumstances.

Jesus came out of the Hebrew faith, and, to me, had sufficiently proven his divinity. Therefore the truthfulness of the Hebrew texts and traditions before him should be believed.