When I read this a few days back it stuck with me, and I didn't have time to respond. It is a thought and sentiment that came to me in the past. In fact, so much so that it caused me to reconsider the whole book then from that one particular perspective. At that time, I came away with the following conclusion. I hope it helps. It did for me.
What person in their right mind would have allowed the Bible, as we know it, to be The Book that represents Him and the history of His people? Seriously, think about it. If you were God and knew you had to allow one book to be penned about you and especially your "followers", would you have allowed the Old and New be your Testament? I would have written about one chapter and said that's it! Good enough. It would have been a cleaner more uplifting text than the one we got. I would have left out 65 of the 66 books in it. I mean have ya'll read the Old Testament? Especially the books of history are story after story of failure. God's people sucked chapter after chapter. So much so it is THE reason Muslims call us "Infidels" because of our documented consistent unfaithfulness to our God. Then in the New Testament there isn't a book that talks more about the failures of his people than the book of Corinthians yet in that very book it has the audacity to start with the verse, "To the Church of God in Corinth..." I mean WTF??? Draw your own conclusions but in the end here is what I took away from it.
If the Bible is a book of fairytales and unicorns, as the unbelievers claim, why allow what was written. I mean if it truly is a ploy to pull the wool over our collective eyes and control us, as the unbelievers claim, why expose all our mistakes. We are the collective Don Quixote of peoples. If I were God I would have had Jesus ride in on a stallion kicking ass and taking names and not on some donkey only to be mocked and spit on? I was left to infer that a perfect text with perfect people would have been the real "fairytale". To me documenting who we really are was more TRUTH than anything else. And in the end it goes to the heart of why we are called believers.
So, as crazy as it seems. The fact that we have an imperfect text that tells our imperfect history became a strength to me as to why the Bible is true to me. And i'm clear, that is what i choose to believe. I suppose many will continue to support their reasons for believing thru scripture, word of mouth witnesses, historical figures, deductions and implications of the metaphysical but in the end, to me it boils down to some who choose to believe, therefore earning the title people of faith, and those that don't. It really is that simple.
And though history shows us to be an unworthy, "...even in our offenses and sins, He still loves us." Why? I can't tell you, but i choose to believe because He is better than us. And if He gets what He is after in us it/we will be the greatest comeback story of all time, because as you say he has every reason to dump us.
If nothing else, i like that some of you guys provoke thought. Whether we land on the same side of things all the time is neither here nor there. I really do appreciate you guys, most of the time;), and can respect our differences. I am often better for it. All the best Brisket.