Short and sweet on this posting. Those of religious belief accept the Bible as our tome of the system. We accept it because it was written by our ancient sholars and it has been passed down through the millennium to the accepted tome of today's religious beliefs.
Those who accept the I Ching for what it is also do so because it was written by Chinese scholars of thousands of years past and it also has been passed down through the millennium and is accepted in those circles as well as the tome of its belief system.
This can also be said of the various other religious tomes, i.e.
• Bible
• Torah (Judaism)
• Talmud (Judaism)
• Chuang Tzu (Chinese)
• Analects of Confucius (Chinese)
• Mencius (Chinese)
• Tao Te Ching (Chinese)
• I Ching (Chinese)
• Avesta (Zoroastrian)
• Book of Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
• Doctrine and Covenants (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
• Pearl of Great Price (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
• Qur'an (Islam)
• Hadith (Islam)
etc. to name only a few which also have lasted for millennium.
So why are we so hesitant to accept any one or all? Every civilization either existing or long gone has its tome's or books that have survived book burnings, etc. though out history to present day.
In my humble opinion they all are good and they all serve a purpose. If maybe we look closer with an open mind maybe, just maybe, we can find connections of validation in all these tome's much like Liebniz did with the binary to hexagram (Shao Yung) connection.
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