As has been stated by betters before:  Denying the historical accuracy of Scripture is not only complete foolishness but must leave those who will not acknowledge the plain truth in an agnostic limbo.  If one denies a record that is so overwhelmingly accurate and meets so many standards (in fact, makes them--it truly is in a league of its own) then what does one do with all of the historical records that fall beneath the standard Scripture carries?  To be consistent the (inconsistent) historian must deny the ability to even know that anything else is true.  This disturbing trend is exactly where much of history is going.  It is most lamentable in reference to the pulpits of our churches. The regular denial that one can even know history but, that it is just a manipulated record of biases and differing points of view condemns any historian, anyone to a total inability to say anything ever happened and moves us all towards a past of mythologies and guesses--a lost history. 

     This is the lost history that Francis Schaeffer (Bio)(L'Abri) used to warn against.  It is the history that does not expect to "rub the cross and get a splinter."  History must be "rubbed," it is real.  You would have received a splinter. You would need tweezers to get it out.  A Christian should not fall prey to relativism or the false agnosticism of the secular historian.  We have and know of the Primary Source:  God's Word!  Since it is true we can know truth!  In fact, once we have used tweezers with the cross, armed with these little tools we can extract the truth from other sources too.  Especially History.  History is true and can be trusted can be judged as anyone would judge empirical data.  It did happen and was recorded.  If it does not stand the test of the objective truth then it is not history, that is myth, that is guesses and manipulations.  The truthfulness of all accounts (aside from Scripture) can be measured and weighed, not because there isn't truthful history but because there is!  I would be interested in any historian or student explaining to me just how they would go about judging history that they themselves stand in at this very moment without first assuming it is really happening!  Or, trying to do it without some standard of real history by which to "mark twaine" by.  With that said, the tools are available, especially in a digital age far more than ever before to gather and compare sources to a Biblical World View of History. 

     The repositories of primary sources and reliable accounts are growing every day as the digital powers of the Borg, I mean Google, grow.  But Google isn't the only place I have gone before.  To encourage this scientific and reasonable endeavor, students should try looking places like the Internet History Sourcebook.  I would especially encourage this as a source for students concerned with European History and US History, although it is much broader!  Just be sure the finding begins with the right perspective on history!  Tweeze on!