Quote from Option Trader:
1. Perhaps read the detailed accounting of events at Mount Sinai, with burning fire to the heavens, people quaking and being thrown back a distance of three "mil", the blow of the shofar getting louder and louder (only possible by God) instead of weaker and weaker, the heavens and the earth being opening up to make it clear to everyone the source of everything is God (we have a scientific form of this with E=MCsquared, that all matter has the same common denominator) all the blind and deaf were healed, the world literally stopped functioning till the Jews said they would accept the Torah, the mountain shaking, etc. The best of Hollywood cannot come anywhere close to this!
2. Again, if this accounting of events did not happen and it was made up, there is NO way you could have had 3 million people agree to accept 613 laws and restrictions on themselves and on their children, with nobody "spilling the beans"; in addition, there is no way they would accept upon themselves to leave their fields idle once in seven years (upon entering "Israel") unless it all happened, especially in a society totally dependant on farming , and leaving their borders in "Israel" totally undefended three times a year, for the festivals, when everyone goes to Yerushalayim ("Jerusalem").
3. Finally, look at the quality of the transmission, to the extent that throughout history, even the most simple Jew (including secular ones), would in the mass majority of cases give up their lives so as not to give up their faith. There is no way the parents could have instilled into their offspring this firmness of belief unless it happened.
4. In reality, if a person could feel comfortable believing an explosion just "happened" with raw materials that just "happened" to be there, and explain away literally billions of positive developments with each one having a 1/1,000,000,000 "statistical chance" as being a "fluke", and try to hide from acknowledging ther is "Higher Being", then other such "conclusions" wouldn't surprise me either. It's quite interesting that even atheist scientists acknowledge they have only scratched the surface of seeing wonders & the wisdom of the universe, although if they won the lottery even once, they wouldn't bet much they would win a second time in a row. If there involves a leap of faith to "yes believe" there involves a far greater leap of faith to "not believe".
4b. Also, I find it surprising that some people carry "life" insurance and don't carry "eternal-life" insurance. But the reality is that if a person's desperate enough to dodge the responsibility of believing, he can come up with quite amazing stuff.
