“On the contrary - there is very little such evaluation. And trust is based on reasonable evidence - in which evaluation must take its place.”

I know people that have a strong trusting, loving faith in Christ and they came to this relationship without comparing Jesus’ claims and with little “reasonable evidence” apart from the Bible and the traditions in which they were raised.

Comparison and evidence are most often, I’ve found, after-the fact rationalizations of what people believe. Most people, I would venture to say, came to their faith; then, they began comparing it to other faiths and building evidence to support/challenge their own beliefs.

I would say that trust is trust and evidence is evidence—nothing says the two most go hand in hand. I can have a great degree of trust with little evidence and conversely, one may have tons of evidence and little trust.

Moreover, the desire to show evidence for one’s faith is not Biblical per se, but a modern epistemological standard that we often feel we have to meet.

Evidence, apart from what the Biblical text says, is a means of devaluing the written scriptures. So, I say that the Holy Bible has all the ingredients for a whole and undivided life. The extra-Biblical evidence that you suggest should be up for evaluation is superfluous. The Bible and faith in Jesus do not require such extra-Biblical supports.