Question: Are there any historical or factual events mentioned in the Bible that make you question its authenticity:
Of course there are!
Anyone with a modern education, especially up to higher levels cannot help questioning the Bible, and all that is around us, in this world of pain and turmoil!
In my own case, despite; or perhaps because of the background of my early years in schooling and Church teaching, my list of questions grew quite long; and my objective observation of society and its structure, motives and behaviours, did not enamour me to the so called norms to which it holds!
Eventually, I rejected much of the human efforts to “condition” my thinking etc.; and formulated a few questions, which, because I did not trust any human to present them to, they were sent in my mind to the ‘theoretical’ god who was so adamantly presented by his ‘advocates’!
In the meantime, I decided I probably was an Atheist!
Quite a long story short; in a few years I was studying the Bible, and as eventually I was travelling quite a lot, this gave quiet time for that pursuit, and to study religions in many countries, together with (I later found out) my wife’s prayers to Almighty God for my objectives to be satisfactorily answered!
To try to summarise; the steps were gradual towards my completed basic understanding; and even when much sorting out had been accomplished, I was still left with questions such as “why is God so quiet now” etc.; which I have only recently been privileged to understand, even though it stares out of Scripture; and is embodied in the Nation of Israel, and what must yet take place, prior to their re-establishment by Almighty God; and the 2nd Advent of Jesus; my Saviour!
Malachi shows the broad plan of Israel’s failure and future; Habakkuk shows in 2:4 that the Just shall live by Faith (in Jesus)!
So; the serious person will keep pressing on towards understanding, and do so in Faith!
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