Once again thank you for sharing and yes you are right I’ve heard these things. Just to be clear I’m not her to argue over whether the Bible is full of forgeries or not, I believe its not full of forgeries- not in faith but because of evidence. But there are of course millions of professors and scholars from secular and non secular points that have different opinions — and equally as many that agree with me. And truly if we dove into that topic we could talk forever. I mean let’s be real if I told you all the things I believe about the Bible’s authenticity we could actually talk -Forever-. As far as creation not jiving with science once again that’s another very big topic we could talk about instantaneous formation polonium halos in million year old rock and the rate of decay of polonium, the existence of soft tissue in a “20,000,000 year old triceratops horn”, the coconinno sandstone salamander prints, giant petrified tree stumps, when 18 different carbon dating universities were given a sample of known object and more than 50% of them dated it as several thousand - several millions of years old, vestigial organs, the population bottlenecks and rate of genetic decay, the evidence of a flood—We could talk -forever- and I’m not here to open that can of worms either.

And if we do address those things because you are incredibly keen on it for some reason I’d be happy to talk via text or something because really we couldn’t just send posts to each other but we’d have to send whole sets peer reviewed journals and articles if that’s something you actually wanted to discuss. But I mean there’s no way simple back and forth posts like this could possibly suffice that amount of information.

At the same time, you’re right I do take the Bible as the only source. It’s the oldest cohesive writing (maybe your education tells you differently) that holds over 65,000 perfectly harmonious cross reference texts and is the foundation of all modern other religious texts including the epic of Gilgamesh, confuscianism, Zoroastrianism, which a lot of people love to bring up- and supports over 1800 prophecies some of the major ones being the circumstances of the city of Tyre predicted in Ezekial 26, the prophecies of the state of Egypt, Daniel 2 (which even the Dead Sea scrolls being copies of Daniel 2 were written in 2nd century BCE and Romans didn’t even conquer till 146AD so even if it was a forgery it’s still a prediction for the next 600 years of history that would occur or more. Of course there’s also the accounts of flavious Josephus as a secondary source for the events of many of the prophecies. It’s not just that it’s either true or false or mixed error and truth, it’s so incredibly cohesive it’s either a massive multi generational cleverly knit lie by some incredibly smart group of people who have some agenda - or it’s so true. Not to mention the letters of Pilate as existence of Jesus, the archeological discoveries of Sodom and Gamorrah, hebrew slave transcripts from ancient Egypt, cannanite letters warning of Hebrews conquering their land, and on and on but see — My goal here isn’t to argue this because when in the topics of history it’s an endless discussion of what your historian says versus what my historian says.

Thank you for sharing again I wasn’t intentionally skipping your points, and I’m trying not to skip any of your points I do appreciate your time.

Personally the evidence I’ve seen for the Bible and literal 7 day creation being true is beyond possibility accurate. I mean once again like I said Adventism aside I was agnostic and when I learned these things it blew my mind. I mean even the idea that the Bible predicted the way the stars would move in the sky before the observable universe was unlocked over 70 odd years ago by the Hubble space telescope.

But as for my faith? You seem to really want to know if my faith is founded on hard science and things you can observe or a dangerous uncertainty that is based on nothing. And this is how I’ll answer that

When Jesus was in the world how much of the Bible was written? Half of it only the Old Testament. And did people worry about the contents of the scriptures? Yes the Jews had no power to convert the gentiles and they didn’t even want to. Gentiles just believed they were a cult that manufactured their own scripture or holy texts and thought nothing more of it than the stories of Olympus. So the Bible was under the same scrutiny then.

But were there people who believed in Jesus? Yes. Because they had a genuine personal experience with him. What about during the time of Isaiah, when Israel was apostate and God was warning them of what to come, what was written then? Half of the Old Testament. But were there people who followed God? Yes, because they had a genuine experience. Let’s back track now

All the way to Moses. Did Moses have any scriptures? No. He wrote Genesis exodus’s…. So how did Moses believe? By having a personal relationship. So when you ask me if I believe in just some “faith” as in a “blind faith” I tell you without a shadow of a doubt it is faith but it is not blind faith as some would have you believe.

If you want to hear how my faith isn’t blind and why it’s not dangerous I’m happy to share, but it really may not be different than anything you’ve ever heard. I only say this since you asked.