'What about the gospels lol? how many exist now?

Well officially, there are a lot more 'gospels' than are in the modern bible. The current bible is a selection of available texts by a King James, thus the King James version.'

well done for taking the point sideways.

how many copies of the four canonical gospels exist? they must have been written and hand-copied at the time, yet you don't believe those witness accounts, nor any of the non-scriptural references?

but you do believe homer & plato wrote the iliad and the republic?
how many copies of those works exist?

and again, your answer belies the influence of the zeitgeist movie, which has permeated into modern atheist-mystery philosophy - 'oh how can we know that all of the gnostic gospels aren't truth as well?'

because they contradict what the rest of the bible says, in a way the four do not, but they in fact harmonise with it. paul also warns us about gnosticism (also related to subjectivism and 'there is no absolute truth, man' non sense.)

you are determined not to see, nothing more i can do - maybe one or two readers will have more open and searching minds than yours.

good luck :-)