MOS,
You genuinely believe in the bible as being the word of God.
God existing aside, this makes your argument incredulous, because humans have proven themselves, throughout the ages, to be lying, duplicitous shits, that will do / say anything to get their genes the upper hand in the game of survival.
It logically follows, that the humans, who wrote these texts (unless you are ready to offer an cogent argument that, throughout the ages, the bible was not inscribed by human hands), which you so like to quote, would have, throughout the ages, amended the words (regardless of their initial validity) so as to promote their own genetic interests.
Therefore, it stands to reason, that the words contained therein, have been amended, in this highly influential text, so as to suit human needs, and are no longer the word of God (assuming indeed that he even exists, and said the things that were initially documented by humans).
If you cannot see why a majority of us find your position utterly incredulous, purely from a lexical viewpoint, discounting the gaping holes in the logical / ontological fallacies inherent in the theist position, then we should really just accept you as someone who lacks the desire to inspect this topic with the necessary, critical granularity that such great claims require.
It is simply beyond your ken.
Even the Muslim philosopher: Averroës knew that religion was for those who didn't possess the mental fortitude to persevere with the inherent uncertainties of human existence, aka the stage of the absurd.
I completely understand why many people, yourself included, opt for a variant of Camus' philosophical suicide. The alternative is a lifetime of existential crisis / angst. But such is the calling of the Ubermensch!
I, like Sisyphus, am happy in my struggle, and have no recourse to such tricks of the mind, to assuage my struggle for meaning.
