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I am confident that the God who made the universe and sustains it to this day is able to guide the decisions made in any counsel, government or decision making to secure that the 66 books of the Bible are indeed His word for us.
The ancient writings, the dead sea scrolls among them, bear evidence of that, the rest I accept by faith.
Much like my faith in God. The existence of an ordered, complex and interdependent universe provides evidence of His existence, the rest I accept by faith.
Faith, yes. Blind faith, no thanks. I'll take mine with evidence please.



We are talking about 1700 to 2000 years ago for the new testament and Christ. The Dead Sea Scrolls are a little older possibly. If they knew the Romans were coming to destroy their city/settlement maybe that is why the scrolls were hidden. There is not one single word in the scrolls about Christ. We know the Jews existed, they have a big book on their history and laws. Nothing in it verifies that anything is true, they just say it is. Ever notice God didn't talk to Moses in public view or earshot. I am not sure Moses existed either to be honest.

Your faith is not ever questioned here. My assertion is we have no clue what created it all. That is all on faith, no evidence, none, not a word that your God or anybodies God is the one that did it.

Faith is what brings people peace, direction, understanding of why they are. That is good for them. I believe its misguided for people to try to strip it away by any means. So when Goddess Ran brings the tide that lets me catch fish, I think that is pretty cool. Religion is tribal, they are not all right, maybe none of them are because they all claim to know for sure. What I know for sure is they can't all be right. I doubt any of them are.

I try to aggravate one person a day. Today may be your day.