Be honest: when you read the bible what makes you think it is of divine origin? [Spirituality & Religion]

There was a time in my life where i really wanted to believe and i tried hard to have faith and asked with all my heart that god reveal himself to me. But predictably he did not. And the more i read, the more it became obvious to me that the bible was the work of men.
So base and petty and violent. This was not the work of an enlightened being.

So what makes you feel that the bible is of divine origin?

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midnightoker · 61-69, M

The Bible is too wordy, the stories are too wordy, there's no need for the ten commandments.......The Bible should be just one 1a
sheet of paper that says:
'Try not to be a c*nt

Carazaa · F

God is telling us what he is like through these stories. How much He loves us. And it is also a book how we fall short. I am going to post a story from the Bible about a man who loved his wife later and how she was whorring around every night. He went searching for her. And he found her in the town square where men bid for her. Her husband loved her so he bid the highest. He bought her back. She went home with him. That is our God. We are whoring around and he purchased us back. These stories are amazing, about us, God, and how he loves us. They have changed my life.@midnightoker

Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M

@Carazaa where is that?

Carazaa · F

Book of Hosea.

Moosepantspatty · 31-35, M

@Carazaa I dont understand the logic in that story.

1. Dude loves his wife, and receives physical intimacy for free.

2. Wife fucks other dudes for money, and does not run off to live with any of these men.

3. Dude finds wife committing a mortal sin by prostituting herself to the highest bidder.

4. Dude loves his wife and receives physical intimacy for an ungainly price.

5. Wife stops being a prostitute because her husband payed her for sex.

6. What?

Tastyfrzz · 61-69, M

Hmm, I think she'd find a suitcase with her stuff in it on the steps and the locks changed here.