I would like to have a conversation with you but I have the feeling that you posted this in bad faith on purpose.

Oh no, I was very serious about my post. If you want to have a Bible discussion, I find that entertaining, I’ve read and studied it quite a bit before I realized there’s no reason to think any of it ever happened.

Still, the knowledge I picked up about the collection of loosely connected stories didn’t just go away, so we can talk.

Choose your own spirituality over your family’s wishes.

Listen to and respect your parents.

And obey them, at least as long as you’re a child. Rather like slaves should obey their masters. They use the same word, so it’s kinda hard to argue those are both “listen to and respect”. Though, granted, that was Pau saying that, not Jesus.

He did not come to upturn the old Jewish law but to fulfill it by sacrificing himself to pay for all of the past and future failures of humanity.

Leaving aside how that’s both not a sacrifice AND not a requirement to fix things when you’re also an all powerful god, Jesus missed a LOT of requirements to be the Messiah, so can’t really do that. I know the prophets are skipped over a lot, but if you don’t put the different parts next to each other, you can’t actually learn anything.

But the most important part of the bible, wholly apart from any inconsistencies, is that there’s really no reason to think any of it is true. That took me a LONG time to figure out, which is what I studied it so much. Turns out the answer is really simple.