skepticism

1  Peter 1:16

We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

The first disciples are eyewitnesses and are the source behind almost all of the New Testament. The fact that the stories vary and appear to us this way doesn’t make me think they are less accurate. They appear more accurate, because if I was making it up as the editor, I would have made them all as identical as possible! A reasonable hypothesis is they are left with their differences (though no doctrine is different) because this is how it happened according to the eyewitness.

Pray for any personal skepticism to be based on reason.