You'd be suprised, I'd even point to the oral tradition of Islam. In a society where books weren't an option, people knew this stuff by heart. You can make the argument that things may have changed, but that's a personal matter and a choice I cannot influence. As a child of God one must choose to either believe God would care enough to make sure that His Word made it down to all of us or either he does not exist and therefore wouldn't care. I don't want to turn this into a debate of philosophy by any means, but I just don't understand how one can throw out some sections and not the others. If part of it won't stand, and one chooses to accept that, then none of it must stand. God's not going to send down a Bible through the ages that would mislead that masses so seriously as modern "scholarship" suggests.
Do you know if any of Jesus 12 disciples would write things down as Jesus spoke them, or maybe keep something like a daily journal going. I have never been able to figure out why if they new this child born was the saver of the world, why they didn’t keep better records of his every word. We have hardly any words from the childhood of Jesus. And the story that we do have seems so strange; they make this long trip and don’t even realize that Jesus is not with them until a day later on the way back home, then spend 3 day’s looking for him. How could you let such a thing happen to the savior of your people, let alone the whole world?
I cannot tell you exactly how the disciples recorded everything. That's a matter of faith. Either you believe that they recorded this with knowledge or you believe that they were done, possibly by someone else, at a later date. If the latter, what good were the teachings of the Son of God? Consider the culture back then. They would have been traveling in a group and it would have been easy for Jesus to slip away. We have the record that he slipped away easily from large crowds. He's the Son of God, afterall. Mustafaa, I understand your questions but then I must ask you what good would a recorded history of his life do? I quote Jesus when I say he say "Behold, I have told you all things..." Everything we need to know is there in front of us. What Jesus did as a boy has no consequence for any of us. There are some very solid traditions that he visited afar (as far north as what is today Glastonberry, UK but that's another thread for another day). That makes for a wonderful story, but that has no bearing on my salvation or Lord Yeshua as my personal Savior. The best translation is the KJV. A lot of people will argue until they turn blue in the face about that, but the KJV stays the closest to the original Hebrew and it captures the beautiful language as best as English can. The Hebrew and Chaldee is a much more complex language where one word can hold very deep and diverse meaning. There are only two sources for Jesus outside the Bible and they say very little but do seem to confirm his existence. The Roman historian Tacitus wrote indirectly about him in his Annals of Rome (I believe is the name) and then Josephus wrote about him briefly as well. There's a lot of debate as to the nature of Josephus as Christian or as Jewish, but either way it seems clear he did write of Jesus.