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support. And now here's this week's podcast. 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, we're 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,

and in a world where everybody believed in the gods

or some kind of God. I mean, let's just be honest, all right? Weren't they just making stuff up?

I mean, weren't they just guessing? Should we really be surprised that modern people, it seems

more and more, are kind of dismissing faith in general or deconstructing their faith, the terminology that we use now, we begin to ask really hard questions or what seem to be hard questions about faith and realize we don't really have answers. And it's not that we're sure that we're right that religion is wrong, but because we're not sure that religion is right, we just kind of step back and it's like, I'm just, I'm not, I'm not sure about that anymore. I mean, should we be surprised more and more people are doing that or to make it personal? Should we be surprised that perhaps that's where you are, or are you surprised that that's where you are? That maybe you're in the process of walking away, or you just have so many questions, you're starting to lean away, or maybe you're listening or watching today, and honestly, nobody in your family knows this yet, but you have your hand on the doorknob. I mean, you're about to step away and outside of faith, and you're not sure how your family's gonna respond, your friends are to respond, maybe even your employer is going to

respond, but you're just kind of leaning that way. And if, you know, all there is to this is the Bible

tells us so, then we shouldn't be surprised, and you should be honest with yourself. I mean,

if, if in fact the Christian faith balances precariously on the edge of ancient declarations of superstitious men, well, then, why not?

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