Tomus, the first accounts of Jesus where written within thirty five years of his death.
If all believers are deluded, and not in a personal relationship with their Saviour, then why have they allowed themselves to be hunted down, persecuted and executed for not renouncing their faith. Millions of them.
It still goes on now, all over the Middle East, and especially in China, where the Communist Party has for years waged war on the House Churches.
Arrests, torture and death, right up to the present day, but these Christians, strong in faith, will never renounce the Lord.
Mainstream media do not report it, but there are many reenacted films on YouTube to bring home the horror that Christians endure.
But, in spite of the persecution the churches grow in number.
The Chinese Communist Party has declared war on God.
As did Stalin, Mao and Hitler. They are gone, bit Christianity grows stronger, but not in the apostate churches.