I had to stop highlighting because I so strongly agree with all of your excellent thoughts here. I have suffered with my own long history believing in the inerrancy of the Bible and my relationships with those in Christianity who insist we either believe it or as you say, are not "Christian" and going to hell. It has freed me not only from idolizing a wonderful book and God-inspired stories, poems and even laws and creeds, but also from my own doubts about God's relevance and reality today. Thank you for this. Shalom.