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Take that defective story back to the atheist who sold it to you & get a refund. You presented it as if it was written that the trees met together & had a discussion. What was written was that a man told such a story.
No. What was written in the Bible was that Jotham said (in my paraphrase) "Give heed to me so that God may give heed to you. The trees wanted to anoint a ruler....."
How do I know that Jotham was just providing a fictional account? Maybe he thought he was actually educating everyone about an real historical moment. What part of the passage, besides our belief that trees don't anoint rulers, tells me this is not intended by Jotham, God, and the writers of Judges to be an actual historic event.
You're the one that claims to have an infallible interpretation of the Word. Educate me as to how you determined that the trees didn't actually hold an election of sorts. Are there particular turns of phrase in the original Hebrew that are not evident in the English translation?


A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke