It's a human interpretation of an idea which transcends our human scope. It will always be imperfect because we are. But God himself is not imperfect and you can use religion as a tool to connect with Him. Many need this tool, but some don't, and all of our paths are individual journeys.

It's also and incredibly old oral tradition which has likely been corrupted through time and translation to an extent. I could see Satoshi being seen as a prophet in the future. We need ideas which tie us to our time and place well, and we haven't had a true religious revolution in a long time.

Some similar things can be seen in westward American expansion though, like Mormon ideas about Jesus in America. Good religion adapts to current circumstances in a way which keeps the underlying truths intact. My two sats.

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The Mormons sort of lost the plot and added a book, and I think Satoshi is just the New Age Golden Calf, but I get what you're saying.

That said, I think the idea to move further away from a religious text is a direct result of the But Literally fraction raising the stakes so high that everyone gives up trying to jump over them and moves on to something else.

Lots of people were using the argument that the Bible has been corrupted and isn't what was originally written, so they can dismiss it. Then the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, that were copied several hundred years before Christ, and it was almost identical to the other copies. When there was a difference, it was usually a minor misspelling or putting words in a different order. No differences changed the overall meaning of scripture. Also, there are more copies of the Bible than any other ancient book (2nd most copies are Homer's Iliad) and there are orders of magnitude more copies. Saying the Bible is corrupted and not valid invalidates every ancient manuscript. The argument of corruption is nonsensical.

God doesn't make mistakes. Every detail in the Bible is true. The Bible, although written down by many men through millennia, is one coherent document that explains all of history and the future. It should be central to all Christians. We can't just interpret it any way we feel like. Our understanding (especially about future events) may change as new nations come into existent and new technologies are created which couldn't be explained in the past, but the literal meaning doesn't change with a change in culture or a change in what we think science says. When science and the Bible disagree, it is the scientists that got a wrong.

I think physics isn't as important as metaphysics. That doesn't mean that physics is wrong, tho. It just has a limited scope and doesn't explain everything, and doesn't answer the hardest questions, and it has to be constantly updated to be precise.

Being the literal Word of God, the bible is divinely preserved.

Well said 👏