Here we agree.
However, I also inclined to believe that the Bible itself also probably does not have a great deal to contribute to our understanding of God. What it does give us, in my opinion, is a lot of knowledge about man's conception of God through the ages which is something vastly different.
Throughout these conversations, you have tried to make everything black-and-white, and all the math equal out at the end of the column like an accountant -- but life is eternal, infinite, gloriously varied and very messy, on our level. Either you are rather young; you are naive; you have not studied the Bible or even read it -- or you are an accountant or engineer. LOL!
I have not tried to make things out as black and white and believe that those who do have built there houses on quicksand. I agree with you heartily that "life is gloriously varied and very messy".
Finally, I'm not young by a long shot. I don't think I am naive (but that is open to debate!) I have studied the Bible as well as other great scriptures. Also, I am neither an accountant nor an engineer. In fact, if there is one of profession whose services I require above all others, it is the accountant!
It does no good to study the Bible if you remain unsurrendered to its message, lumping the Bible into a category of equally great scriptures. If you were a believer, not a skeptic, there would be no question which message was truly valid; nor would you waste my time and yours on skeptical debate about infallibility.
The "engineer" part was a joke. As for the accountant part, click here.