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I trust what I can prove, I blindly trust very few human beings; no politicians, no CEO’s; noone ever from HR; no lawyer even if he/she works for me; no Priests, Popes or anyone who claims to be Holy or who speaks for God. I only put blind trust in a few family and very, very close friends, were I married I would absolutely put blind trust in my wife.

The question I think you really were asking me is, what do I have faith in?

I have a faithful belief in the concept of God, the Creator, a higher power, call it what you will. I have a faithful belief in the immaculate conception and the resurrection but those are going to be a tough ones to prove to be real thus they’ll have to stay in the realm of faith for now.

I believe Jesus actually did live as there seems to be Roman records of him and others, and events mentioned in the Bible. I believe the crucifiction happened. There is actual physical evidence that these events happened.

I believe story of Noah’s flood is true although the Bible version is likely not completely accurate, more like a conglomeration of all the various cultural evidence from civiliztions around the world who had no contact with each other until thousands of years after their flood stories/mythologies were recorded, and they all speak of a great flood.

Every year geologists around the world are finding the hard geologic evidence of huge floods around the time of the Younger Dryas and shortly there after. The Earth was in a climatic upheaval at the time as it was transitioning from a glacial cycle to and interglacial cycle. And by the way, the Earth is now at the beginning stages of transitioning back into a glacial cycle. Just sayin

I tend to believe Exodus actually happened; not through the Red Sea, but rather, what was called the Reed Sea contemperaneously because it was a very shallow sea area close to the Mediterranean Sea coast. The Jewish slaves escaping Pharo’s bondage made it through the Reed Sea but Pharoh’s Army likely got caught in a tsunami generated from an earthquake in the area of the Greecian Islands. There is ample evidence of the tsunami but more evidence as in maybe charriot wheels or something physical from Pharo’s army that dates to the same time period as the tsunami is needed to prove it actually happened. I’m sorry, but Moses did not raise his hands and part the Red Sea.

Of course if one actually researches and compares the stories in the Bible with the stories from Greek and Roman mythology, one begins to notice some incrdible similarities in many of the stories.

Have you ever read the Epic of Gilgamesh? It was written during the time of the Sumerian civilization about 4100ya, thousands of years before the Bible was written. If you want to see what I’m talking about, it has some striking similarities to the Bible’s stories, you should check it out, one can actually listen to the audiobook version free from Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGaEFPssQ7s