Mael

so i've been wondering this for a while: why do people believe the bible? we take other religous myths as only being myths and fanciful stories, whether they were passed down in written or oral form. yet with the new and old testament, many people seem (to me at least) to rather blindly accept them at face value. it doesn't make much sense to me. there are ancient historians from rome who we know about and have been discredited as being very biased and not necessarily completely factual, so why do people take the old testament as face value? we don't know who wrote it after all.

i learned in my early medieval history class about how after rome became christian, and the church established in what would be the first modern official establishment (i know i'm not saying what i mean in a nice articulate manner, i can't find the right words. i think you know what i mean though), a council of church officials took all of the different versions and books of the new testament, went through them, edited them, threw out some books, used others, and created a codefied new testament. so i have a hard seeing the NT as being divenly inspired. (this was i think around 400 AD, not sure though, took that class some 6 years ago).

so could someone explain why this is? if you beleive, why?

i don't believe in what they say. to me, it was a book of stories that someone wrote from oral tales, then passed down, and people kept believing not because it was necessarily true, but because people kept telling the next generation that that was the way it is, the truth.

so i guess it seems to me that when you have faith in the bible, you're really having faith in the person who told you about it, who had faith in the person he was told about it by, and so on and so forth.

anyways, i realize this is a bit disjointed, maybe really two threads in one, but it's been a long tiring day. i'm not asking this to upset anyone or troll or anything, i'm genuinly curious as to what you all think.

thanks.