If you don't believe a thing in the book, of course you're going to think the derived ideas are terrible. I just happen to have more to go on now than the book itself.
Where did you get the other things if not from the book?
From life itself.. walking with God for a change, trusting Christ and finding him faithful every single day since, and finding
this verse quite true. I wish I had time to elaborate, but that's the root of it.
The point of contentipn I have with that rhetoric is this. You are not litetally walking. The metaphor is vacant of a corresponding idea.
The trust youre putting in that person qua person remains undeliverable to any living being.
The ideals youre alluding to pointing to are in the most literal sense not above, below, north by northeast, ect et al of you for any given distance away from your extended, pointing, very tangible finger.
Unless you are pointing into the virtual reality of your own specific mind.