(December 1, 2022 at 11:38 am)Deesse23 Wrote:(December 1, 2022 at 10:28 am)Jehanne Wrote: Also explain why the text of Genesis underwent redactions, changes and edits over the centuries before settling on its final form circa 150 BCE?As Angrboda already hinted at: If anything can be figurative in the bible, why not the existence of god? Its maybe just a metaphor for........pick and choose.
In my opinion, I think that most believers, even a significant minority of religious fundamentalists, covertly think their religious faith to be bullshit, but they "profess" belief for psychological, social, sexual, economic, political, familial, etc., reasons.