Historians?!? What do we do with them?

I have been raised that only what is in Scripture is testament of what we should believe in as even #science gets #manipulated and the further back in history we go the more it is a guessing game.

This is very true as not all history has been documented in the Bible and most of what is written in the Bible is no longer evident. Sometimes we can take a guess as to the location of an event (think of the rock which was split when Moses hit it), but we don't know for sure and science and history will prove it false as an actual event.

Then we get historians, which in some instances we use as proof of our beliefs and in other cases, meh...

Currently I am really trying to look at history from a different perspective to get a better understanding of Scripture.

What I have come to learn is that history is always written by the winner and that all conquerors were good; well at least in how his-story tells it.

All wars have been won by the "good guys". What a marvel of history. 🤯

So what do we make of #historians that tell of history that is not mainstream? Do we blatantly ignore them or do we take heed of their tellings even if it goes against what the mainstream says?

As an example of this, I found a good summary of events around 66AD documented on https://biblicalblueprints.com..../Sermons/New%20Testa

Also, why do we believe that we have all the facts living 2000 years after an event? There are cases where people living now don't even know what certain commonly available implements were used for during the gold rush; which was just a few hundred years ago.