How can anyone believe the New Testament account of the life of Jesus, seeing that it was written so long after His death? There seems to…

Are the New Testament books an arbitrary or personal selection of what was available? Or is there more to it than that?

The way the Gospel accounts use the right names for people shows that they were about real people, based on reliable information.

How many hand-written copies of the Gospel accounts are there? What does this reveal about possible mistakes?