As I said, my experience accounts in for my motivation to study the bible and is not a testimony to others. And like most here, I do not believe there is any firm connection between feelings and verasity. Feelings are good at motivating an inquiry but poor at producing conviction. An effective medicine can have more than one active ingredient. Similarly, my Christian faith can be both motivated by awe and intellecually satisfying. And, yes, I find the biblical texts intellectually satisfying and spiritually nourishing. Then again it baffles me why some athiests think Christian believers, like me, should be bothered by the fact that the bible isn't something it was never meant to be. The texts use the understanding of nature common to the ancient world to communicate theological messages to a pre-modern audience. Explain to me why that is is a problem?
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