Thanks for your complimentary remarks. The reason I write is to connect with people like you.

I cannot disagree with anything you say here, and appreciate you sharing your own Christian journey.

It's interesting that you consider the Bible not to be a unified and coherent text, when my current debating companion, David Knott, says that he has studied it for 40 years, and believes that it is. That will be the subject of a future article at some point.