Obviously, you are not going to answer the questions directly and are going to continue to be evasive in supporting your claims.
Based upon this, I can conclude two things...
1)You have never actually read the Bible for yourself, nor have you ever investigated the truths contained within. If you had actually read the Book, you would be able to tell us what the general theme of the Bible really is.
2) You are not able to support your claim that the Bible is "legend and myth", because you cannot cite any solid proof which proves the Bible to be inacurate. Your arguements are more probably based upon your predisposed position of disbelief. The only attempts you make to discredit the Bible are based upon supernatural events...that is, events that defy naturalistic explainations based upon previously observed natual phenomina.
No other book has sold more copies than the Bible. We have more MMS evidence to authenticate it than ANY other writing of antiquity. No book has changed more lives the the Bible, nor have any other writings offered such hope as the Bible offers. For all the supernatural events described in the Bible, the most profound is the resurrection of Christ. Even today, nobody has been able to explain the facts of the resurrection. This single event stands out as the preemminent miracle of all. The Jews tried to cover it up, the Romans tried to lie about and pay off the witnesses and the atheists today still attempt to explain it away, but the evidence is insurmountable that this man Jesus actually lived, was actually crucified a suffered a horrible death and indeed was dead and that He indeed did rise from the dead.
Mohammed is still rotting in his grave, Budda is still moldering in his tomb, but visitors to the tomb of Jesus still find an empty tomb. Nobody has ever been able to explain where his body is and both the Romans and the Jews had plenty of reason to not have him rise from the dead. Nobody has yet to produce His body.
Of all the miracles in the Bible, the resurrection is the one that is impossible to debunk and because of its solid eveidences, easily makes all the other miracles of the Bible easy to conceive. In any court of law (which was tried at a prominent law school) the evidence for the resurrection is so solid that any jury required to contemplate the evidence, would be forced to return the verdict that He did indeed rise as He said He would.
No historical fact related in the Bible has yet to be refuted by archeology. Not ONE! With every turn of the archeologist's spade, the Bible is proven to be more and more highly accurate.
I say all of this because I once sat in a position similar to yours Wiley. I once disbelieved, but began a steady mountain of studying the Bible and it's claims. Yes, there are parts that confuse me and parts that seem difficult to grasp, but the Bible is the most substanbtiated work of literature on the planet and it's truths are solid.
The biggest proof I have for the claims of Christ is the work He has done inside of me. He has brought me from despair to hope in His believable promises. Very little on this earth can change a man from the inside out, but He has. The physical truth about the Bible convinced me to reach out and trust Him , but His work inside me is what gives me hope. Hope that He is just and loving and forgives me for the ruinous loss that I was. He brought me from the drunk, drug addict with a .357 in my mouth to a man who has hope. As He has fogiven me for so much, He has shown me how to forgive and to love those that seemed unlovable. He has given me new eyes to see the world as He sees it.
I ain't perfect Wiley, but I'm not what I used to be.
The theme of the Bible is a love story about God's desire to create a being that would have the free will to choose to love Him or to reject Him. Man chose to love himself instead (as man usually chooses) of God, but God set about a plan to reconcile man to Himself and to restore that one-on-one relationship that He originally created man for. Someone had to pay the price for our disobedience, but there was no man worthy. So God became a man in the flesh and in time and space. A perfect man, without sin, who could relate to us in all of our temptations and yet He remained sinless and becasue He remained sinless could be that perfect lamb, with out blemish Who could be that atoning sacrifice that would pay the price that we all owed to God for our sin. The perfect Man was Jesus...Immanuel (which means "God with us") and He was obedient to the task before Him, for greater love has no man than this but to lay down his life for his friend.
Wiley, I say all this to share the hope that really is Christmas. The gift givers were the Magi, but the greatest gift that first Christmas was God giving us His Son, to die in our place, so that we could be restored to the Father because Jesus paid the price we could not pay. Just as Jesus had the choice to go the cross, we too have the choice to die to ourselves and go to the Father. This is your choice.
You may reject the Bible if you wish. You may reject the Son if you wish. But please choose wisely, based upon knowing the truth first. The Father desires that you turn to Him and He promises to welcome you freely, bringing nothing, because there's nothing you can bring. Jesus brought it all and paid it all.
Because He loves you that much.
With all that in mind, you now know what I mean when I say "Merry Christmas".
Merry Christmas Wiley. I wish you His very best.
baa (His sheep)
Thank you, my dear brother in Christ. May God in all His glory continue to pour His blessings down upon you.