My opinion is this:

Clever as it is, and it is, the bible is a work of man, like all other books.

What need does God have for a book?

Isn't that insulting to the idea of God, just like salvation, judgement, punishment, intervention etc? Why would a creator create in a way that requires action to correct and address issues that could have been avoided by creating more perfect creations?

I have a personal relationship with the divine, I pray daily, my prayers are answered so well that about half my prayers are thank you prayers. I also pray sometimes to tell the divine "I love you" in my own voice.

I pray to my heavenly father, my heavenly mother and my mother earth, but I do not divide the first two, but recognize that as a human my deities, my divinities, are going to "wear" or even "be" projections of human qualities. Much as the god of a horse would be a horse.

I do have my prayers answered, but I do not know there is a god, I merely believe it, and in believing that I do not recognize any religious deity or persona as the god I believe in. I do have experiences that tell me that I should believe, profound things to me, but I have no photos of god, nor a phone number or email, nor a message from God.

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I like this song, it reminds me of how I feel about this.