I appreciate your explanations of your understanding.
I search I read, in the end don't trust most of it.
The Sumerian texts and on up the chain language,definition,emphasis, translation…becomes difficult to know unless you just give up and accept mainstream regurgitation.
God of love
sends you to eternal fire if you don't follow him
can send Trump, but children are still being hurt right now, but won't send me (willing and ready) to happen upon one of these situations to save a child, then when damaged child grows up wrong hurt and dark, and then judged for eternal fire (where was the free will of the child protected?)
I could do this all day, but essentially most arguments don't stand up to reason (why gives us reason) then hold it against us.
If his word is his, then why was man allowed to change or rewrite, couldn't he have made an unchangeable pocket guide to his glory, so as not to be led astray?
I'm not lost, not dark, just always a searcher, ask why about everything.