And another thing I do not understand is this. Why do Evangelicals always quote scripture to you like that is the final authority on everything? Obviously, if you are a non-believer, that is a logical argument of the dog chasing his own tail variety.
This branch of religion (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) has it roots in nomads who could not figure out for 40 years how to cross the Sinai Desert to get from Egypt to Israel. The distance is less than 500 kilometers. The piece de resistance is that while they wandered for 40 years in this barren place, food rained down from the heavens upon them. I can think of many places today that this would be a blessing indeed. I’ve yet to see it though.
Once they finally figured where the heck Israel was, they went on a genocidal tear to take the land from the inhabitants that were already there.
Then we get into Jesus, a religious figure with no historical record. It just seems improbably to me that a personage of this import would not put at least a minor verifiable page into history. All we really have is mythology. This puts him in the same company as Zeus, Thor, and Shiva.
Put that hound on a trail that I can see, feel, smell or otherwise sense, then get back to me.