For non-believers we know that persons in both the old and new testament will be confirmed, giving its authentity to the world. Then the jewish and christian religion stands its ground as THE religion.

The NT would have been very transparent if they wrote about people who never existed since everyone alive at the time would have known whether the people were real or not, but that doesn't give any evidence in terms of the events that happened anymore than if I write a fictional story about Obama.

Wow, is the AP asleep? The "James" ossuary trial has been over for weeks and for some reason the decision is still pending. The experts used the same type of test on the patina and found the James ossuary authentic also. The IAA has had mud on it's face from this one.