What we preach is a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the gentiles...
They weren’t cleverly invented stories, they were translated from gold tablets that no one else saw, but clearly existed because a guy with a checkered past said so, and could only be read in the dark, and I’m pretty sure just by him, which makes total sense since, well, he’s the chosen one, he didn’t need to prove himself through miracles, though sets of stories were different even though that contradicts what Jesus said(I am the same today, yesterday, and forever) because to my understanding after the original book was misplaced God said he’d tell the story differently, and even though that does fall in line with cleverly made up stories, they clearly aren’t.