Hawkins writes:
The point is, by the nature of history itself, most part of history cannot be 'proven', it all relies on humans' eye witnessing.
I think you missed my point. I asked, "How would you authenticate them as witnesses?"
Jim Hawkins and Dr. Livesey both claimed to be eyewitnesses of the events in
Treasure Island - but both of them were fictional characters created by Robert Louis Stevenson. How do you know that the "eyewitnesses" to the Bible events really existed?
Hawkins writes:
So for something historical, the best "witnessing" is,
1) write a book about it
2) martyr as a direct witness to say the truth
But how do you know that the book and the martyrdom aren't fiction?
Hawkins writes:
If you'd like to say that human history is like a book of "Treasure Island".
I'm not saying that history is like
Treasure Island - history can be authenticated. I'm saying that the Bible is like
Treasure Island - neither is history because neither can be authenticated. Both
claim to be written by eyewitnesses but those claims can't be authenticated.
Hawkins writes:
The question is, since when the book of "Treasure Island" gained 1/3 humans as believers?!
Why do
only a minority of people believe the Bible?