[scalablenotions]

It's not that odd, when it's reasonable to imagine that an intelligence which creates life would communicate with that life. Genesis and the rest of Judeo-Christian scripture are a compelling candidate for an externally facilitated communiqué, because of their unlikely history, outstanding philology and uncanny foresight

[dvt]

Imo, there's a very big difference between the creation story found in the Pentateuch and Jesus' teachings in the New Testament. As a Christian I, of course, believe both, but I think that the details of the former are much fuzzier than the latter. So questions like "did God really spend 6 days making the Universe?" are theological red herrings. The point of the Bible is to be reconciled with God through accepting Christ as the one Son of God that died for our sins, was resurrected three days later, and ascended to Heaven. The details of Genesis are certainly interesting theologically, but vigorous debate on them (was God describing evolution? does one day represent a billion years?) isn't particularly interesting spiritually, nor does it really help me reconcile my fallen and sinful nature.

[nendroid]

So your solution is to fulfill yourself spiritually rather than question the veracity of what you're taught?

You desire to reconcile your fallen and sinful nature but your interest is only theological meaning that inconsistent details which may indicate that the documents are completely false are irrelevant because it isn't interesting spiritually.

As a christian my self, the internal and external consistency of the stories matter because a single inconsistency means that I am using a false document to feed my soul polluting it with illusions and lies. If the bible really is a made up document and I've been delusion-ally feeding myself lies for years I would need to stop immediately. I only want only the truth, you should too.

The other thing is, you need to stay unbiased during this "trial of faith." If someone presents to you information that actually definitively proves the bible to be untrue then you must be unbiased and change your conclusions logically on the fly. So far no one has yet presented me with such information and I remain christian at heart.