Old testement

As you can see, I'm a newbie. I've read a lot of posts on many of these forums to get a feel for content and depth of discussion. The religion forums perked my interest among others.

So here goes my first "new topic" endeaver. Be nice to me because remember I'm a virgin. If anything like this has been posted before, just let me know and I will cease and desist.

I read the Old and New testament some 25 year ago and have been an agnostic ever since. At the time of Adam and Eve, there was no written language and probably no oral language. The people that followed them were highly superstistious and saw events through uneducated eyes and were awed by things that you and I take for granted, i. e. the Moon, Sun, Stars, Earth, Water, fire, thunder, lightening, earthquakes, etc., etc. and etc.

Being superstitous and having no written language, their understanding of this things was beyond them. Once a rudimentary language was developed, these natural occurences were pasted down generation to generation to generation ad infinitum. We can't even begin to imagine the embellishments that occured. Once the written language slowly developed, these stories were written down and retranslated for many generations to come.

As a result of the above, they began by worhshiping the Moon, Sun, Earth, stars, water, e. g. anything they could not understand. Then came the false deities and so on and so forth.

Now came the New testament. Most of the above applies here, i. e. superstition, illiteracy, etc. A sheppard out flocking his sheep night after night after nigh is boring, boring, boring. He sees things that he does not understand and with nothing else to do, his mind starts to create reasons and explanations of these heretofore unexplained happenings. Again, his concocted explanations are passed down generation to generation until someone records the embellished account of what occured.

I guess my question is how could anyone believe more than 10% of what the KJ's version states.

Christians have a very large garbage can! When a house burns down and five children and and pregnant woman are burned to death, if you ask a Christian how a loving God could allow this to happen, the reply is always "God works in mysterious ways." "God works in mysterious ways" is their garbage can that allows them to put everything that is unexplainable or totally illogical into. Think how many times a Christian uses that term to answer a question of how could a loving God allow such and such to happen. That is the largest garbage can that the world will ever experience.

I think that the wrath of God is about to come down on me for all I have written. So, who is gonna be first?