W, I don't argue with professions of faith, nor the buttressing them with key texts. The distresses of life create a need for answers. Where there aren't any, a sedative, even if placebo, is welcomed to ease the existential distress.

Outside of faith professions are confounding, contradictory facts that have to be ignored to maintain belief. It isn't just science versus Religion. Presuppositions and God as Guess Work (GW) are the other two. 

The major presupposition is that perfection was primary, cursed by two idiots, for which restoration is the only hope. Christ. There is no support, beyond brain waves, for such a thing.

GW as holy and all powerful is contradicted by ineptness in transmission of revelation (millions of differing guesses) and as a helpless witness to suffering (billions of dead, us on our journey to it, guess it will be resolved someday). 

Jewish Mind (JM) offers nothing but verification that special connection with God is  three millennia of misery, Guess Work.