Replies

I've been occupied, but here is a last (perhaps unwanted ot uninvited) shot at addressing your question(s):

I have no idea or interest in what you are trying to say in the first para.

That is too bad, because I was trying to precisely explain to you why your communication style has not permitted you to get the information you wanted, nor to allow others to identify what your intentions were. That ought to be of concern for you, going forward.

I’ve honestly never thought that much about the bible.

That may be, but you have clearly stated that you have some firmly held opinions about parts of the Bible which you do not accept as literal truths, and which The Holy Spirit, speaking through humans by special revelation over a long period of time, has declared are true -- sometimes miraculously so.

But actually, all of them are easier to believe than to believe what you have claimed: that through your faith, The God of The Bible has somehow transferred useful information to your mind and spirit, with no means or facts to show it rationally, nor ability to prove that otherwise unseen things have become substantial, nor without reference to His previously given verbal commands and illustration of His Will, His Ways, and His Work. That is harder to believe, say, than the Presence of The God in/as a burning bush; or the parting of the Red Sea; or the implanting of a cellular human being in a virgin, even as today our surgeons can do it with a human female virgin to host the developing and birth of a child not of her own flesh.

Simply, let me suggest that you may have faith in your own faith, but your words seem to be without faith in The God or in His claiming of having created you as the offspring of Adam/Eve and thus possessing Lordship over you; nor furthermore of the ability to save of your soul after your physical death in a resurrected perfect body to have everlasting, abundant, joyous Life.

That's not a criticism, just an observation.

What I do know is that The God of The Bible has put people in this world who know him, to be preachers and teachers of The Faith of Jesus Christ from His Preserved Inerrant, Infallible, Plenary Verbal Written Word of God, and that that is the way He has chosen to communicate with you -- the only way. I'm just one of those people, like it or not, care about it or not, but ignore it, you may not -- not yet, that is. He does seek to reach you, that you might know Him as a Friend.

Arrogant? No, just stating an impersonal broadly applicable fact.

With regard -- sayonara --