The Word of God?

Why Should Postmodern, Technically-Advanced Humans Place So Much Faith in What Primitive, Ignorant People Wrote Down Over 2,000 Years Ago?

The less you know, the more you believe. – Bono

Back when the books of the Bible were being written, only a select few could even write, and all of them were male. So, is it any wonder that everything in the Bible is slanted toward male dominance?  Even God is male. I’ve always found it odd to assign gender to God. Why couldn’t God be female and give birth to the universe?  To me, this is further evidence that the men writing the Bible naturally made God a man, in their own image, not the other way around. Did these guys write down what God told them to write, what someone else told them to write, or did they simply write their own opinions and interpretations of things?  I’m trying to visualize the process of these scribes writing down what God wanted them to write. Did they actually hear the voice of God?  Did God speak to them in their dreams?  I have little faith in humans trying to interpret the word of God and getting it right. All we know for sure is that human hands actually wrote the words. In this whole process, isn’t it likely that imperfect humans could have misinterpreted something or even left out important details?

The Bible was translated several times, and each translation increased the odds that mistakes occurred. In Greek, for example, many words have several translations, and the correct meaning is totally dependent on the context. Often what appears to be the right word is not exactly the right word. And who can ignore the fact that there were many more books, like the Dead Sea Scrolls, that, for whatever reasons, didn’t make it into the final version of the Bible. Why were they omitted?  Who had the final call as to which books made it in and which books did not. What was the litmus test that determined in or out?  Were the authors of the omitted books also inspired by God like the ones that made it in?  And how in the world could humans making these judgments possibly determine which books were really inspired by God (if any) and which ones were not?  This whole process smacks of political deals and ideological clashes.