You say the life before Jesus met John the Baptist is not relevant. For goodness sake John was the son of Jesus mothers sister.
Mary and Elisabeth were NOT sisters.
Luk 1:36 And, behold,
thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.
He Jesus and John must have known and grew up with each other. Small town and family must have gathered together quite often.
Mary and Elisabeth didn't live in the same town.
Luk 1:39, 40 And Mary arose in those days, and
went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. Naturally this is relevant, family bond by blood of Jesus and John for many years. Both were raised together and worshiped together with both family's on High Holy days.
Very much like today's family's where two sisters visit often and the their kids play together. These two cousins had to have found a common bond, somewhere in the their adult formative lives that we have no record of.
Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem, and Jesus was born there. They lived there until they fled to Egypt to preserve His life. When they returned from Egypt, they lived in Nazareth. Those moves all fulfilled prophecy, by the way. But they mean that Jesus and John did not grow up together!!
Question is how John had the power to baptise the Son of God if he did not have the Power to do so if the Holy Spirit did not dwell in him ??
The more questions I have transcends faith, it becomes fact and brings this into the realm of --- not faith but belief, a real thing that happend and the truth and not some old story from the past that has been fiddled with for 2000 years to benefit others.
Vesta, YOU are fiddling with this history, getting all the facts wrong and then calling it a "story" that has been fiddled with for 2000 years! Read the New Testament. It's 2000 years old!!!