I'm haven't read this entire thread and I'm not going to, but I'll treat you to my response to the OP nevertheless.
I will NOT pick up a book, or listen to a sermon, and just believe the message it tries to send unquestioningly. There is no compelling reason to actually, truly, and unwaveringly believe that there is an entity who not only engineered myself and the world I live in, but placed within it absolute proof that the guidebook(s) he gave us to live by is innaccurate. Why would he do this? Why would he have us deny the most magnificent thing he gave us, our ability to reason, and accept the stories in an often retranslated book of vague origin instead of the evidence that we can see plainly around us?
The times for accepting the laws of this "mysterious" deity are past people. The truth is that he's not really that mysterious at all. I hate to burst your bubble but he's US. We made him up because we needed him to fill a void. Oh sure there are real people and places in the bible, just like in every Stephen King book I read in the past decade. Whatever it is you think you "feel", it's all in your head. Your need and desire are so great that it has become something unto itself, a fantasy that has been your security blanket for your entire life. I say step into the light of your own reason and out of the false light of delusion.
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