The bible does hold truth to it because it holds powerful messages that can be interpreted any way. The bible has meaning because people connect to it individually in certain ways. Personally when reading The Gospel of Luke I found that I do believe that praying and believing angels put a baby in Mary’s stomach helped her become pregnant. Even though there were never these winged flying humans or multi-eyed flying beings (angels) that physically threw a baby into her womb. The over personification of positive thinking/manifestation/positive energy leads to some confusion but it also leads to a deeper connection to the text. It feels like I’m unraveling the true purpose and meanings of the text now. In Genesis the same thing happens. The verse goes:“And God said. Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night” (Genesis 1:3-1:5). At first I found it completely outlandish and almost offensive to say the Christian god created everything just because he felt like it. I thought that it felt weird to give a gender to the most powerful being in the universe. Then I realized it wasn’t the gender that was important, it was the representation. More men would bow down in front of a more powerful man because they felt being a guy was a symbol of strength. Although it may be true in a physical sense it is not necessarily true from a mental standpoint. But letting men believe the god they were praying to was a god was more likely to get them to commit to faith. Going back to the quote “and God said. Let there be light: and there was light” (Genesis 1:3) it’s important to realize two things. The first was science was not developed so people were baffled by a number of things. When there is no answer humans do not accept that and give credit to “god.” Even with science people still believe that god was the creator of our planet. The argument goes “everything is so perfect, if we were just a degree farther from the sun we wouldn’t have life.” Although that may be true, it’s stupid. There has literally been billions of years of evolution on Earth, that’s why some plants look like hornets and palm tree’s exist so well in tropical climates. Evolution has been proven multiple times and it’s clear we are not the first life form to dominate Earth. The second thing to take into consideration is that the bible makes no sense if not looked at through a spiritual lens. God is the personification of positive energy. The formation of Earth was positive in the eyes of humans so with that definition of god “he” did create Earth. In the bible it’s said that man was made from clay. As outlandish as it sounds it does hold some truth. Humans are the byproduct of stardust so we are in essence one with Earth and one with the universe.