What always happens in these discussions is that Christians just throw a lot of Bible verses at you as if that proves anything. The Biblle is what is in question. Trusting it as proof of itself is like asking the accused person at a trial if he committed the crime and then letting his answer be the only thing that decides the outcome of the case. What do you think the defendent is going to say? Likewise naturally the text of the Bible is going to present itself as absolute truth. But here is the concept that Christians cannot seem to grasp. For starters with the Bible you are not putting your faith in God. First and foremost you are putting your faith in the people who wrote the Bible. People who lived 2000 years ago that you don't know from Adam's house cat. And who were these people? Superstitious goat herders that thought the earth was flat and that witches actually exist. People that I can assure you knew faaaaar less about the true nature of the universe than you or I. That is who you are first putting your faith in that the Bible is the word of God. And that is the big honking weak link in the chain.
And the passion with which people believe something is no evidence of it's validity either. There are about 4300 religions on this planet. The people of these religions believe them fervantly and think they are on the one true path to god. But simple deductive logic tells you that 4299 of them have to be wrong. And if 4299 of them can be wrong (as they surely are) then all 4300 can be as well.
