I'm not dismissing eye-witness testimony - I'm dismissing testimony that was handed down by word of mouth until it was written down a century or so after the fact. Have you ever played broken telephone? then you understand why I am sceptical of biased accounts that have a century of word of mouth between them and the first time they were committed to paper.

Also, I could get ten thousand atheists to testify to the fact that the Flying Spaghetti Monster touched us all with his noodly appendages, but unless we have evidence to back it up, we would be called out for it. And that's what I'm doing to the bible - calling out the fact that there is literally no evidence (outside of the testimony of his followers - which is hardly unbiased) to suggest that god existed then or now. I've never disputed that historically, a man called Jesus Christ once lived - just that when he claimed to be the son of god, that's all it was - a claim.  Where's the proof to demonstrate otherwise?