There ya' go...it's not just a matter of "truth-teller or liar".
That pretty much answers itself. If they are "just stories", then by definition they are made up.
Or they could be like what we call today "based on real events", where some parts of the story are real and true and others are not.
Maybe they're wrong. Perhaps there's a context surrounding those stories that the people quoting them are unaware of, or are ill equipped to grasp.
Well hopefully you won't continue to make the same error, where you artificially limit explanations to only two possibilities (truth-teller or liar).
Life is usually more complex than what is presented in binary scenarios.
I have not made any mistake.
Either it's a story, or it is not.
Either those who substantiated the accounts were liars or they were not.
It's as simple as that.
Perhaps you are making the mistake of limiting people's view to yours.
I'm not going to hope you don't continue with that though
Experience tells me you will.
You are just causing me to repeat what I said.
There are quite a lot of loonballs, people don't mind reading.
Jesus, Peter, Paul... Why, because they came along after this event, and spoke of it as real.
So what you are doing, is actually saying, all the people that came along after, and "mistakenly" thought the story is real, are all loonballs. That excludes you, and anyone who does not think the event really happened.
Because why would they not see that the account has to be a story, but you can?
Why would they be mistaken, when you are not?
Oh wait. They did not live in modern times, when knowledge that everything aside from the possibility that there could be a God who only started the universe, but does nothing else, is known.
So, basically, people get to pick and choose what God is allowed to do.
It's an either or, because we don't get to decide what we want it to be.
I am quite certain you are not going to tell me. there are lots of possibilities where belief in the ToE, is concerned. Oh, it's not a belief?
Then there are no other possibilities right.
Maybe you are mistaken, and the fossil record does not tell the story you believe, and you are mistaken.
Maybe DNA sequencing tells you a lot about the genes, etc, but you mistakenly think it tells you what you believe.
Maybe...
Yes, your binary scenario just did not simplify things. It was fitting for one thought only.... yours.