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.
Have you read any of the other great scriptures or did you just take your pastor's word that they are "false teachings"? Could you, in fact, read them with the openness with which you profess to read the Bible? I seriously doubt it. In my experience, fundamentalism teaches one not to consider other beliefs under penalty of sin...a convenient provision when it comes to keeping the flock from straying!
If you were a believer, not a skeptic, there would be no question which message was truly valid...
Well, you are essentially saying that if I believed it then I would believe it. Obviously true!!!
I do wholeheartedly support your right to believe as you do and I do not question your sincerity. I do have a problem when thoughtful people here are branded as evil interlopers and liberals just because they don't agree as you do about these deeply personal matters.
Personally, my own conception of God leans toward that imagined by Jefferson when he said, "Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear." -Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 10, 1787.
Apparently you took my comment about accountants to mean that I am wealthy. Not so (regrettably), however that is not to say I do not find it challenging to fill out my tax return!