Who is really in charge of inspiration?

Wow. Do you really think we haven't thought about this stuff until you shat your brilliance upon us?The conceitedness is strong with this one. Because of the question in your OP!? Well, here's it is again, followed by my answers:

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The question is this: how do the faithful know that their holy text is truly divine in origin, and not just the best trick ever devised by some evil god, demigod or other superbeing;
how do you tell who really inspired that scripture?

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You can't.So what?Your question is as profound as asking how do you know anything is real. How do you know that the devil isn't just tricking you into thinking that you're sitting at a computer typing on a message board? Whoa man... that's sooo deep.Uht--ooh Arg..What's this? This critical thinking has invaded me! I will no longer go along with fairy tales! Give me a break...... and cut down the pompousness.

You're welcome, it was reflective. Where's the claims that it could not have been another entity at all?And if there was entirely no evidence, then that would mean that what was posited was arrived at randomly. Do you really think that people form their religious beliefs all willy-nilly? And I've answered that and you haven't replied...I don't know, I can't. So what? I accept plenty of things without a rational basis, it doesn't bother me. How sure do you think I am? I wouldn't say sure...Surety and faith don't really go hand-in-hand. Faith is trust for when there isn't surety.If I was sure then I wouldn't need faith. I don't "have faith" in evolution, I've seen from the evidence that its happening. We can't know if the Bible was inspired, by I believe it and have faith that it was. But that doesn't mean I don't have any evidence whatsoever. We can look at the contents of the book and try to figure out if its something that we could accept as being inspired. But all you seem interested in is: "well, how do you know that was inspiried?". When people reply, all you gotta do is go back one more: "well, how do you know that was inspiried?", and so on. In the end, yes, we don't have evidence telling us whether or not it was. But that doesn't mean that positions are not being derived and thought about and worked towards. Nah, its more like out-sourcing your thinking But yeah, you're like, totally right, man: Theist don't have any rational thinking at all and thier beliefs are just childish security blankets.You're lucky that your so much better than them. This cartoon character of the believer that you've concocted is grossly inaccurate and the way you've draw it is telling of your pompous conceitedness.You have them as arriving at their conclusions willy-nilly and then demanding that other people believe them as well, but lucky you with your rationality that you are demanding of evidence and if only you could expose them to their lack of evidence then the smart ones will see that they don't have your rationality and then they'll drop their stupid beliefs thereby having nothing to demand others to accept.But we can see that this isn't what the believers are doing, that they're not really sure and that they're not really demanding you believe anything. But you don't want to talk to those people. It seems this is just another atheist's thread set up to make fun of those stupid believers.

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The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false. - St. Thomas Aquinas