"The Problem with Christians....."

".........is the approach to reading of the Tanakh with the idea that every word is infallible, the people referenced real, and every single word to be true."  This was Michael's response to me after sharing with him that the stories written in the Tanakh was one of several factors that have kept me from embracing atheism.  "What difference does it make if they are true or not?  What matters is that they are there to teach us something about how to live our lives."

One can say the same thing about "The Secret".  But I did'nt share that with him.

One of the other things he's mentioned about the flaws in the Christian approach to interpreting Old Testament scripture was the lack of access to commentaries used by revered Jewish scholars as a primary tool in interpreting scripture.  Michael says it's the commentaries that matter more than the text itself.

That's where he lost me.