In my younger days I spent 12 years in a "Bible believing" church. I finally rejected those beliefs when I started doing my own research on the Bible and reading numerous books by Bible scholars. This research has continued for the past 16 years. One thing I quickly realized is that there's a huge gap between what real Bible scholars know about the book and what many Christians believe about it.
Even the most elementary facts known to scholars for centuries are unknown to many Christians. For example, very few (if any!) of the books in the Bible were actually written by the men whose names are attached to the books today. This goes for both Old and New Testament books. While many Christians are shocked when they first hear this, it has been common knowledge among scholars for a very long time.
Sorry, but the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John were not written by those men. How then did the gospels get those names attached? And who actually wrote the gospels?
