You are not asked to put your Faith into anything man made though. This is probably the best take away. The Bible is a history book, as you have said, but it has been found to be true, I know parts sound way to crazy to be true but name one religion or structured idea or even scientific fact that doesn't? Only through the repetition of these are people able to grasp the knowledge as possible. That in its self requires Faith. Most scientific facts that we accept today are only theories that haven't been disproven yet, but to say you cannot prove the opposite of something doesn't mean either is true, it means you do not know. Faith is required for life, if you want to believe it or not. Maybe I am a big softy for choosing the one that allows freedom for all in creation and not one of the others that I could use as an excuse to hold myself above another. Jesus Christ is the only example that also gives the individual an ability to communicate with the Creator without intervention of man. It is the only one that declares that all are equal, that none have status over another. The only one that says I am the child of God and you can join me in this simply by accepting that we are all children of God. Jesus Christ didn't make religion, he destroyed it along with the slave state that was born out of it. Accepting Jesus as the Son of the One True God makes you his Child. which would make you....

You are not asked to put your Faith into anything man made though. This is probably the best take away. The Bible is a history book, as you have said, but it has been found to be true, I know parts sound way to crazy to be true but name one religion or structured idea or even scientific fact that doesn't? Only through the repetition of these are people able to grasp the knowledge as possible. That in its self requires Faith. Most scientific facts that we accept today are only theories that haven't been disproven yet, but to say you cannot prove the opposite of something doesn't mean either is true, it means you do not know. Faith is required for life, if you want to believe it or not. Maybe I am a big softy for choosing the one that allows freedom for all in creation and not one of the others that I could use as an excuse to hold myself above another. Jesus Christ is the only example that also gives the individual an ability to communicate with the Creator without intervention of man. It is the only one that declares that all are equal, that none have status over another. The only one that says I am the child of God and you can join me in this simply by accepting that we are all children of God. Jesus Christ didn't make religion, he destroyed it along with the slave state that was born out of it. Accepting Jesus as the Son of the One True God makes you his brother/sister. which would make you....