Okay, this is getting ridiculous. I'm going to make this as simple as I can, and then I'm going to end this. If you want to reply again, I'll let you have the last word, but I'm moving on from this discussion.

Here we go...keeping it simple...

I believe in the Bible because I'm convinced that it's an accurate reflection of God's revelation to humanity.

Does the Bible contain stories involving miracles and claims involving the supernatural? Yes.

Does that make the Bible and Christianity "batshit crazy" as you allege? Only if we live in a closed materialist system wherein (as the late Carl Sagan put it) "the cosmos is all that ever is, was, or ever will be."

If scientific materialism is true and there is no supernatural, then yes, miracle claims are definitionally absurd.

I don't grant that premise, however. And that's where our most fundamental difference lies. If nature is all that there is, then...yes...religion that speaks of angels and talking animals is crazy. But...

If the supernatural is real, then all bets are off.

I don’t believe something just because I believe it or because my peers make me believe it. Or because I feel some top-down obligation from some organized religious establishment to believe it.

I make choices of what to believe and who to believe in. And I do so as a free agent.

And as I've reiterated time and again on this platform, I believe in religious freedom and the freedom of conscience.

I trust God. You don’t. That’s your call.

I'm not trying to force anything on you, on Notch, or on anyone else reading this.

At this point, I think we’ve both said what we’re going to say. I’ll let readers decide which approach seems more reasonable.

All the best!