Thanks much for your reply, bobby.

Although your points are sound, I find they don't altogether solve the conundrum, as you put it. My post was not so much about the process in which the Bible was written, but what happened to it afterwards as it was copied and translated.

Don't get me wrong, I think that there is still truth to be found in the Bible; but where there is wheat, there is chaff, and sometimes it is not always easy to separate.

The point of this post isn't to discredit the Bible, but to encourage people to question what they read and follow what is in their hearts rather than to blindly believe what they're told is the infallible word of God.