We DO have reasons for verification, JohnV. One big one is that skeptics accuse the Bible of being largely fiction and that we believe by BLIND faith.
I was somewhat skeptical myself years ago. One thing that began to open my eyes was that the totally-Godless Napoleon was asked if he believed in miracles, and he unhesitatingly said, "Oui". When asked if he'd ever seen a miracle, he again unhesitatingly answered, "Oui. The Jews."
My faith began with seeing Scripture is true, realizing God DOES exist, that He's in charge, and that He's given us only one way to be in His favor: belief and faith in His Son JESUS CHRIST, to whom He's given all authority for our salvation.
If one statement of fact in Scripture was to be proven untrue, wouldn't that cast doubt upon all the others?
The theory of evolution isn't a lot older than the KJVO myth, and has been proven just as false. Why are missing links missing? Because they never existed. Of all the creatures ever known to have existed, only birds have feathers. The first known bird is calles archaeopteryx. It's the first known fossilized creature that had feathers. But it had jaws with teeth, resembling those of a lizard, so some erudite evolutionist decreed birds evolved from lizards...completely disregarding the fact that scales are very different from feathers, and that Archie's wings and legs bend the opposite way from a lizard's(which bend the same as ours). it was an entirely-different creature from any known lizard! Even the famed pterodactyl's wings bent the same way a lizard's legs do! And there's no sign it had feathers or even scales!
But enuff about evolution.
Many people say those ancient people couldn't count very well nor did they observe the heavens; their years had only 360 days. Well, that's because at the time THE SOLAR YEAR HAD ONLY 360 DAYS! This is known all over the world, and the ancient mayas, who calculated the current year to within a few hundredths of a second, once had a 360 day year, as did the ancient Chinese, the great African empires, Egypt, Hawaii, and other peoples who didn't know of each other's existence in Biblical times. If the calculated year had been shorted by 5 1/4 days, farmers woulda been planting almost a month late within 5 years! (Most ancient farmers kept their own solar calendars.)
I've asked many a skeptic concerning this to please read Worlds In Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky, a Jew from Russia who had set out to disprove the Scriptures but proved many of them instead! He reminds us that the stoppage of the sun & moon for Joshua was recorded worldwide as actually being observed ot that the night was very long. Same with the reversal of the sun's course for Hezekiah. In North America, it was recorded by the Pawnees as the sun's rising a little way, then reversing & setting again.
Soon after this, the year was observed all over the world, to have become 265 1/4 days long.
Simple fact is, some people are more skeptical than others. I was QUITE skeptical. But GOD has supplied us with the means to see He's telling the TRUTH.
