"Others will walk away and find a different path altogether. Both are valid. Both are holy."

I was fortunate enough to have heard the essential Bible stories in Sunday School. Yet as I moved through adolescence God, Jesus, and the Bible had nothing to do with my life - except when one friend was seriously hurt in an auto accident and when a dear classmate died in another. Boy oh boy, how intensely did I pray through tears to God of those Bible stories!

Notwithstanding, afterwards, I returned to my normal adolescent path.

Through it all , I never "deconstructed." Rather, as I traveled through my life's course, I did challenge God with all the hard questions.

So, I believe a lot of what you are saying is truth, and I recognize that if one doesn't challenge God in their formative years, those challenge questions remain in need to be answered.

The first chapter in its first sentences in James letter, "if any of you lack insight, ask God who freely answers without criticizing the person asking." So, there's that. The problem is we are too impatient to wait for answers.

Still and all, the danger is twofold. One is hidden in your quote above. Rejecting Jesus' saying that He is the Way, the Truth , and the Life and that no one comes to God the Father except through Him, makes all other claims to ways and truths and lifes invalid - not "valid."

Second, the danger in deconstruction, as I see it, is the tendency to pick and choose what Bible precepts one accepts or rejects and what ideas from other religions are accepted in their stead. It becomes a mishmash of a cement mixture which becomes a weak foundation to build upon - no better than quicksand.

By the way, "holy" in the Bible means "separate" with context implying "to God."