Originally Posted by
skysaw
Thanks for the answer. This brings us to the crux of what concerns me.
This strikes me as a backwards approach. Shouldn't you be more willing to trust someone you can actually meet and talk to? Someone you personally can make contact with and judge what they are saying?
I find it strange that people are more willing to put faith in the writings of people whose names are lost, and whose credentials are completely unknown. They were simply people, and not much different than anyone you might meet today who claims to have been directed by God. And since anyone can make such a claim, it seems to me it would be in your best interest to question the authority of every single individual who may have contributed to the Bible. You know what they say about a single bad apple...
Just one person with a personal secular agenda could lead millions astray in this case. Three or four, and the bible is so entangled with hidden motives that you'd be hard-pressed to sort out God's word from someone who just had something personal against the Romans, for example.
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