BiblioLunacy?

Obviously, a Supreme Being or Divine Group of Them intelligently designed everything intelligently designed around us, which obviously-existing natural phenomena we obviously were born into and obviously did not create ourselves.

As to the Identity of that Who or What created it all back in "the beginning" (whenever THAT was) is not readily obvious by observing natural phenomena, being that nothing natural and non-manmade is stamped with an inception date.

Obviously, certain characteristics of that Who or What Creator are obviously perceivable by the created phenomena He, She, or It has intelligently designed. For instance: the awesome power, creativity, complexity, repairability, consistency, durability, extensiveness, beauty, reliability, precision, impeccable order, and trustworthiness of natural phenomena!

Enter the 66-book "Holy Bible" - a rather lengthy and complex assemblage of human-authored plain common sense, historical records, and bizarre assortment of Ripley's Believe It or Not claimed "signs" and "miracles."

It has been said by some humans that the Being is designated male in gender, with "God," "the Lord," "the LORD," "Christ," and "Jesus" as [His] name. Associated with them are "the Holy Spirit" ["Who" - not What] convinces believers who have "faith" of the previously-stated declarations and the contents of "The Bible" elaborating on the alleged actions and specific doctrines relating to such named entities.

Personally, I can honestly say that I have never gone down to my local cemetery and seen anyone raised back to life who was medically certified by the coroner or mortician and embalmer as having actually died (in a non-sleep sense) and been dead for at least a week. (Both Lazarus and Jesus were not dead, according to "the Bible," for more than five days). I never saw the Red Sea opened up by a strong wind, never seen Joshua's purported "long day" nor the sundial shadow of Ahaz abnormally going the opposite direction. Medical science has made great strides in enabling the disabled and handicapped lame to walk, the blind to see, and deaf to hear. But I have never seen anyone walk on water, except ski behind a powerboat either barefooted or with a pair of water skis. Making enough food to feed 5000 humans with a few slices of bread and a couple fishburger patties sounds like a neat trick, to be sure.

Then there is what Saint Paul might have called "the foolishness" of some "scriptural" premises, such as:

"It's good for the eyes to look at the Sun" [Ecclesiastes]
So go permanently blind staring directly at the Sun all day!

"Eat my flesh and drink my blood" [John]
Holy cannibalism! Should I say YUCK! or instead YUMM?

"I can do all thing through Christ who strengthens me" [Paul]
Oh yeah? Let's see you jump out of a plane with no chute, shoot yourself in the head with a .44, jump up and touch the Moon, etc.

"You have died and your life is hid with Christ" [Paul]
Yeah? Where is the medical examiner's report? Which casket did I lie in in which funeral parlor? Where is my tomb with gravestone where I am buried?

Nonsense talk, to say the least?

Fortunately, us who do not gullibly convince ourselves to confuse fairy tales and mythical imagination with reality in real life are well aware of the literary plethoria of metaphors, symbols, allegories, and the like.

But where should we draw the line when it comes to the worded statements of "Scripture?" Is it such a crime to be a "Doubting Thomas" without adequate five-senses-perceivable proof of purported "miracles" alluded to in "The Bible?" Are we to be forced to utter either a Yes or No about something we are not sure of? Clearly, we have no authority to declare "Biblical" suppositions lies, yet do we have the right to declare them true and having actually happened as described? We certainly do not have the belligerant arrogance to call "Bible" authors dishonest when we have no first-hand eyewitness proof ourselves. But if push comes to shove, it is obviously up to the Creator of everything around us to do what [He] must to and for us to cause us to finally and ultimately come up with the correct answer.

And some have claimed to have had that done to and for them (this webauthor included - if you'll bear with me).