So going with your logic, a receipt once you purchase goods only claims that goods were bought for the amount on it, we should not confuse this claim with a factual purchase transaction that indeed took place, the receipt does not evidence this.

Your certificate from high school only claims you went to that high school, we cannot confuse this with you factually going to the high school.

A doctor's report of a cancer patient should not be confused with the claim that the patient indeed has cancer.

Do you see the problem with this reasoning? While theoretically the receipt could have been forged and your high school diploma a hoax, it is evidence of some kind at least, until we have reason to doubt these things. And in the case of the facts I presented, historians and scholars across the spectrum accept them as valid. You, with zero credentials wave them away as not evidential at all.

This is Matt Dilahunty level of insane, nobody thinks like this...until it comes to a claim you really don't want to accept/consider.

However, I see the subtle game being played here. My claim does not only rest on the 500 witnesses. So even if I go with this insane reasoning and throw that out, you still have the apostles, 120 witnesses at the upper room and you still have Paul and James and Jude. So there are still witnesses either way.

So again I ask, please, help me restore my faith in the rationality of atheism. What is your explanation that simultaneously accounts for all the facts I began this conversation with? I will accept a story. Please give me something my friend, I am desperate now...