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So here is what might be an uncomfortable question for some of us and an interesting and maybe

even helpful and surprisingly honest question for others of us. When it comes to knowing if there

is a God and if there is a God, what God is like and when it comes to trying to figure out

who God likes, does it really come down to the Bible, tells us so or any other religious literature

tells us so. I mean, or modern people, rational people, are we really expected to believe

what we believe or believe anything based on a collection of ancient manuscripts written by

potentially dozens of men only who didn't even know each other over the course of hundreds and

hundreds of years in a world without science in the way that we think of modern science.

In a world where everybody believed in the gods or some kind of God, I mean, let's just be

honest, all right. Aren't they just making stuff up? I mean, aren't they just guessing?

Aren't they just looking at the, you know, whether patterns and trying to, you know, make sense of

something that just didn't make any sense in that time? And along with that, and maybe this is

kind of intersects with your life, should we really be surprised that modern people, it seems more

and more are kind of dismissing faith in general or deconstructing their faith, terminology that

we use now, we begin to ask really hard questions or what seem to be hard questions about faith and

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