If Not Hell then what?

[Drich]

Let's suppose, for the sake of argument, that every person who wrote a book of the bible wrote it as a complete work of fiction. With Genesis, that's an easy sell. But people took these books, originally written as fiction in order to spoof or fool other people, and assumed they were real truthful additions to the collection of holy texts. The more people took them seriously, the more people wrote 'spoofs' of those books, which in turn got taken seriously. We need not know the reasons why exactly, because people write satires and fan fiction and forgeries all the time. It's not impossible that the author of every book of the bible self-consciously knew it to be untrue, a work of fiction, and only later was it taken to be true by the Jews and Christians.

So we have a real possibility that all the books of the bible are fictional, and that them being fiction is their correct interpretation. My question to you Drich, is how do you know that this is not the proper interpretation?

(And I'll stress the word 'know' — how do you know this is not the case, not simply that you believe it isn't the case. After all, what you're asking of us in return is quite substantial; a mere 'whim' of belief won't cut it.)

Because there are promises/challenges in the bible that God offers to us. If we take Him up on those promises as stated we will Find what He has promised. (An awareness and abilties given to us from God.) That is the only way we can know. (That God/The Holy Spirit personally re-enforces what the bible teaches and promises.)

That subsequently is why God also tell us those who are wise according to the standard of Man will (Meaning those who prize man's knoweledge above that of God's) will never know God. Because in essence if one were to prize man's knoweledge above God that person's dedication to that knoweledge becomes their own little version of a god. In that they yeild to the authority of that knowledge rather than to the authority of God himself.

Command #1 You shall have no other God's before me. If you worship anything above God then in essence/spirit of the Law, that becomes a 'god' you put before the God of the bible.