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Because it's the truth you choose to see. You, like most, Christians hold the bible as a divinely inspired holy book. Whether or not the hands of the authors were "guided by some higher power" no one can truly say, because we don't know. What we DO know is that the bible is a book...written by men...over the period of +/- 1,500 years. You find absolute truth in the bible...I see stories of men living to 950+ years old, like Noah and Methuselah, and talking donkeys.

Yes. I do believe it is divinely inspired and written by God himself through the hands of specific men. The very fact that it was written over a span of 1500+ years and it supports itself from Genesis to Revelation points to it's divinity. Along with the hundreds of prophesies foretold thousands of years ahead of time, which has already come to pass. The proof is in the pudding, so to speak.

As far as men living to 950+ years old and talking donkeys (which is only the tip of the iceberg of amazing miracles in the Bible)... I believe the God who created the laws of physics and time can alter those things to his will whenever and however he wants. He is not limited by the physical constraints you and I are.