Question

Thank you, Rabbi, for the response, but I still have a difficulty. When a nation has millions of people with a variety of views that were shaped over the generations, can one person get up and claim something that apparently does not fit most of the existing views—and his narrative will take over? Even though there is a wide range of halakhic disputes, on the issue of the number of people, did the narrative become dominant so that in the generations afterward there were no disputes about it? (To the point that it would be written in the Torah in detail.)
In stories about righteous figures, one could argue that things get reshaped, because the witnesses are few, and sometimes the miracles are described in ways that are easy to misunderstand or imagine vividly. One can also say that the shared narrative among those people is what convinced them, but among the Jewish people there were other views that did not accept it and disagreed—unlike the matter of the numbers, where everyone agreed despite the narrative of preserving the tradition. Again, thank you very much!