PROBABLY? For the only issue which transcends the proverbial "matter of life or death", a probably (for me, at least) does'nt feed the bulldog.
you have to add that, just for curiousity, the disbelievers went to the banquet site, but didn't see any banquet
Actually, when I was a disbeliever, I saw the people waiting in line and laughed at them. Then I came up with a lot of flawed reasoning to support my belief of how stupid people could be to pin their hopes on the writings of goat herders, fishermen, and tent makers, not to mention the interpretations of those writings by televised snake oil hustlers.
But, I never REALLY, HONESTLY sought out the guy putting on the event for his input.
others who believed in the banquet kept disappearing thinking that they were going to the banquet
Here's a news flash; we ALL "disappear".
But they never returned and no one really knew (except by faith) that the banquet ever happened.
Not quite right. One man did come back in widely reported historical event. This historical event is mentioned in more non-biblical ancient texts than is the historical event of the assasination of Julius Ceasar. What's more, is that several of his closest followers went willingly to their deaths for the "crime" of reporting what they saw; they could have avoided some very painful deaths just by copping to their "lie". But they did'nt. They knew what was waiting for them. And as they stood at the very entrance to the banquet hall, being eaten by lions, being burned alive, being killed by having rocks thrown at them, or being crucified; they asked the "banquet organizer" to forgive their killers, and thanked the "banquet organizer" for everything they had been allowed to do (including being killed for His sake).