BM: Believe it or not, I don't take them on faith, not entirely at any rate. > > So, no, I don't take it on faith. The evidence I continue to find strengthens my faith, however.-What you have presented I fully accept. Much of the OT is true history and you have just documented that. I've spoken many years ago to the archeologists in the City of David dig just outside the Walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was just as the bible said. I am aware of the recent computer model of a 60 mile an hour wind removing enough water from the Sea of Reeds to allow the Jews to cross. -We each have our own approach to finding God. You said you were a Deist, but you sound like a Theist to me. Which is it?