Your Bible began in Hebrew and many of the Bible "stories" were poached from there, miss-translations and miss-understandings and all.

The thing is, the Hebrew bible was put together from a mixture of ancient writings and things Moses said plus later additions.

Ancient writings of course they were, But Gods words all the same.

Since then there have not only been many additions, there have been (deliberate?) omissions too. Are you trying to say that all the people who had a hand in writing all these things were given that (mis)information direct from god? If so, how was it communicated?

Opposers of God were and are the ones doing the deliberate omissions and alterations, the originals are Gods. God communicated in several ways, and one was actually speaking to them. You are free to disbelieve this if you so wish, but you cannot disprove it. You may go on to say I cannot prove it, but it has been proven to me and that is what matters to me.

The Five Books of Moses (the Torah) are pretty well known but how about Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Ruth, Kings, Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastics amongst the twenty-odd books of the Tanakh, do many people know about those?

If you are a reader of the Bible then those should be know to you, if not then we can help you get to know them if you so wish.

As I've said before, people have picked and chosen what to incorporate in their religion, all claiming it to be the word of god but ask yourself, if someone, a decent soul, stood up today and came out with all sorts of things saying it was the word of god, would you believe him? Why not? You believe all sorts of things which were written long ago in a time when people were illiterate and ill-informed, liable to believe any explanation of the inexplicable. If a "bolt from the Blue" just happened to strike someone dead, the explanation given way back when wouldn't be the same as for someone so struck today (well, there were actually two today).

I would have to research and convince myself first whether it was from God, but it it came from a place other than the organisation I turn to for guidence then It is highly unlikely I would believe him, simply because I have learnt enough about Jehovah and his principles , requirments and instruction to make a good judgement and sound judgement.

Now it was realised a while back that a form of explosion could be created from Uranium but it was more or less dismissed for a while as not producing anything really worthwhile. But then, one day, a bloke had a flash of inspiration and concluded that what was required was a chain reaction in order to create an explosion of (then) unimaginable force. After realising that an enemy was stockpiling Uranium, it was concluded that they were on the same track of trying to create an Atom Bomb so the work done so far towards finding out how to create a chain reaction was given to the Americans to try to "get there first". Now, did that bloke who had the flash of inspiration hear the word of god? Although on the one hand the results of his flash of inspiration killed a lot of people, it also saved an awful lot more. God works in mysterious ways?

Well, What are you trying to tell me there CD? All I can say to that is, he had an impulse to copy a reaction that Jehovah had already created. I wouldn't know any more about it, All I know is God is a God of love but also of Justice. Anything he does even though I may not entirely understand the reasons for it, those reasons will always be good ones. I trust Jehovah.

I also need to apologise for the different text formats in this post, I am still trying to fathom the best way to quote and answer in the same box. lol xx