If you were to buy a used car from someone, would you take their word that the car never had an accident? Or would you want proof? If they write it out (their promise) on paper, would that be proof? No, that would be hearsay not evidence. If you interview for a job, but don't have a resume, should the employer just trust your word? No, the resume is proof but they still check with past employers. That's proof, not your word. Likewise, you telling me that the Bible is literal truth based on facts doesn't make it so. You can believe it if you wish, but that's called faith not facts. And you can't prove it at all. That, is a fact.
I did not become a Christian until my late forties and since I come from a technology background, I required more than faith in the beginning. But there is a very profound statement relative to scripture, “the more you learn, the more faith you have and the more faith that you have, the more you learn”. I started with the “learning” part first, faith came afterwards.
What convinced me beyond any reasonable doubt was predictive prophecy, much of which can be proven with archelogy and secular history. There are hundreds of prophecies in scripture that have been fulfilled exactly as was prophesied, sometimes centuries in advance. Furthermore, the scriptures were penned by 40 or so authors over many centuries and hundreds of miles apart that maintain continuity from Gen 1:1 to Rev 22:21 before, telephone, telegraph, television and telewoman.
Not true, the Bible speaks of what was, history, what is, the present, and what will be, the future. To think of it as nothing more than a historical document is extremely myopic.
BTW and IMO, there is a huge difference in "Christian" and a Bible believing Christian.