you're too hard on other people, not so with yourself. "Truth" is something, generally, that cannot be credited to the inner workings of the human brain. "Truth" is what is "out there" in the universe that "just is".
Reminds me of the hapless condition of liberals, like Bill Clinton, who live on the edge of sanity, if in any way contacting it at all, who can hang their hat on verbiage like "depends on what the meaning of "is" is."
It is probably most accurate to state that we humans haven't got a clue what "is" is. Thence, of course, we don't have a clue what "truth" is, either.
However, I sense you reject the OT because you listened to some Baptists or maybe Mormons declaring that the Bible is the word of God, with or without the caveat "as far as it is translated correctly", and figured out the mortal humans actually wrote it, albeit in their finest effort to produce a cohesive faithful defense of their place in the eye of God.
When you read the newspaper, or watch the news, do you get your hackles up half so high? When you attend a college course do you feel compelled to reject the prof? and the text, entirely out of hand and just hoot at it all?
nah, you wanna believe the bible is just stupid, so that's what you look for.
I, on the other hand, for all my hooting at the profs and scientists, the newspapers and the TV priesthood, can still find a lot of good stuff in the Bible.
