Quote Originally Posted by skysaw View Post
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.
Yes I guess I should be suspicious of writings done in the past but these writings form the base of the religion. You have to trust someone or you will have no one when you really need them. I guess I believe them because I WANT to believe they are true. I have found nothing to suggest to me that the writers where purposely misleading just as I have found nothing to suggest that they all believed what they were writing. I guess it is really comes down to the fact that I don't have proof either way.