I believe the God of Abraham created heaven, earth and all living creatures both of flesh and of spirit. And, of all the inhabitants of the earth, this same God chose to grant to Abraham and his descendants, Israel, a covenant of everlasting life and the inheritance of the earth and the inhabitants thereof for possessions. And this same God chose Moses to record His Law for Israel. His Law provides temporal life and blessings of the flesh, but never everlasting life, whereas the denial of which severs from the everlasting life offered by this same covenant with Abraham.
I believe Jesus of Nazareth is the flesh and blood body of that same God, born on earth by the virgin womb of a woman, Mary. And this same Jesus willingly and with extreme grace suffered death by order of the Roman Prefect Pontius Pilate, for to secure that same covenant of everlasting life with Abraham in accordance with the terms of His own Law and that same covenant. And this same Jesus rose from the dead to everlasting life and shall return to earth in His same body of flesh and bone to judge the living and the dead.
I believe that same covenant with Abraham shall be realized in forgiveness of transgression and resurrection of the body of those out of Israel whom that same Jesus chooses to grant inheritance of the earth and everlasting life in accordance with the terms of that same covenant with Abraham.
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If you don't believe this, you probably also don't know why you believe many of the things that you do believe. Good luck with that. You'll need it. more. . .3 paragraphs
Why do you believe the earth revolves around the sun? Why do you believe that consent of the majority confers moral authority to government? Probably because that is what you've been told all your life and you simply believe what you've been told. You've been told the author of the Bible must have been human beings, so you believe it. When you can explain to me WHY you believe the earth revolves around the sun (Let me guess, because the experts say so; and you believe it. That's why.) and can tell me WHY you believe consent confers moral authority, only then would I be interested in listening to your theory about the Bible's authorship.
Of course, if theories about the natural human authoriship of the content of the Bible are wrong, what does that imply about the veracity of the information it contains? Do you actually know what the implications are? Do you even know what the text of the Bible contains? Or do you just listen to others tell you about that too? Did you know it contains explainations of race and gender relations, instructions on schedualed debt releif to mitigate pernicious economic cycles, instructions for the selection of leaders. (by the way, the efficacy of democratic selection of leaders sucks.) It also contains dietary rules for the adroit, mankind's only perfect calendar that doesn't lose or gain a single day even over geologic time. (Even our modern Gregorian loses one day every three thousand years.)
I can explain exactly why I believe the earth revolves around the sun and quantify the probability it is true. If you can't quantify the probability that something you believe is true, you're just guessing. I can explain exactly there is zero percent chance that consent confers moral authority.