Testimony: Are we being hypocritical?

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And I have explained why, despite legalistic definitions, testimony is NOT evidence. It isn't evidence of anything but that the person giving it is claims a particular thing. The evidence part is what is used to determine whether their claim is credible enough to justify finding someone guilty or not guilty, as the case may be.

Evidence simply means "that which is evident." The gospel writers testified to their actual experiences...evidently.

You're giving those writers of their current-day fiction a lot of cred with that statement. I know a guy who went and bought a red caftan at a resale store and went around acting like a religious person, to the point of making prophecies. People ended up following him in the streets to see what he had to say. He made up a prophecy for a woman about how some of her relatives were going to die. She got all kinds of upset, and (since he's an atheist) he felt badly and told her he was making the whole thing up. She got angry because he was backing off "only to make her not feel badly about that prediction", which as far as she was concerned, was true. The only difference between what happened with this guy and your belief is that you are separated by many centuries from the pretenders by other suckers who bought into it.