Why believe the bible?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

This does not, however, lead me to the conclusion that Harry Potter doesn't use a book to speak to me.

If you can understand the silliness and irrationality of the above, you can apply the same logic to god and the bible.

Point taken.

I get where you are coming from in that anyone can make blind assertions about any book.

But at the end of the day, we have both investigated. I have made my investigations of scripture and so have you. Your investigations and questioning led you to reject it outright, while mine changed how I read it and the contexts behind it. Two different perspectives.

And I think we can acknowledge, regardless of our differences of interpretation, that the motivations behind the writing of the Bible and Harry Potter were totally different.

Still, I can see your argument. I can see where you're coming from.

If you have investigated the Bible then you should know what the real Ten Commandments are and that every Bible story illustrates one or more of them.  You should also know that all of the Bible stories teach complete obedience and loyalty to the Boss.  Everything else is simply BS filler.  The Bible is simply a military code of conduct for the masses.