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Commenting on "What Jesus Said"

Your charge of credulity in the Christian belief of the Scriptures I find unfounded. The fact you do not accept the historical evidence of Jesus does not make the evidence invalid. The fact you do not accept the historical evidence the Scriptures were written by the original authors does not make the evidence invalid. It simply means you do not accept the evidence, that's all. The fact you suggest the words of Jesus could not be remembered accurately is not surprising, for you do not accept anything supernatural, therefore you would not accept John 14:26 ESV
(26)  But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

The very existence of God demands an element of supernatural, which you do not allow for, therefore, your reason is only acceptable to an unbeliever, and they are already most likely in agreement with you, so it is mostly a useless argument.

The fact that Jesus existed as a historical person is very well documented, you just don't accept the documentation as reliable, the fact you do not accept it does not make it unreliable. Even the most skeptical liberal historians have admitted that Jesus was a real person.

As far as the writings of Scripture themselves, they are to most reliable ancient documents in the world by any standard documents of antiquity are judged. To discredit them one must of necessity discredit all documents of antiquity.

Consider Caesar Augustus (Octavius) who died in 14 AD having reigned since 27 BC, and The Roman epic and elegiac poet and satirist Ovid who lived from 43 BC to 18 AD. Seneca the Younger, Stoic philosopher, statesman, born 4 BC died 65 AD, Livy 59 BC - 12 AD who was a Roman historian, also Pliny the Elder AD 23–79 Writer and natural philosopher, then Apollonius of Tyana AD 15–100. Greek orator, philosopher, and mathematician, Strabo, Greek geographer, philosopher, and historian. 64BC -24 AD, Philo of Alexandria, Hellenistic Jewish philosopher, 20 BC - 50 AD, and Hero of Alexandria, engineer and mathematician 10–70 AD. According to your reasoning, we cannot be sure any of these people really lived, yet we accept they lived based upon far less historical record than what we have for Jesus.

Your argument is only meaningful to those who are already in agreement with you, there is nothing persuasive in your argument to change the mind of one who has already considered history in its context.