A work of fiction

The bible to me is the same as Greek or Roman mythology...

The bible to me is a book written by men to control women of how she should live. i would definately not say the bible is 100 percent bad . The bible consist of old and new testament. i find the old testament non-sense since there is hatry towards a woman. but in the new testament, a man named jesus saved magdalene from being stoned to death. i think jesus is the only man from the bible who treat a woman with respect. therefore i respect him . I would not consider that he is alive since he dead 2000 years ago. however i do respect him in conclusion the bible to me is for 90 percent non-sense and 10 percent senseful.

A doorstop.

Pornographic in spots, full of hate/torture/murder & incest, plus a gawd who creates & destroys for no reason whatsoever except "jealousy".....

A collection of stories to answer questions of a sheep hearding society. A collection that is taken way too seriously today.

What it is.A book written by ignorant, bronze age savages who thought the Earth was flat.

This one helped me feel safe at a really sketchy motel.

It's out dated and full contridictions. Just any other fiction out there.

The greatest collection of lies ever put between a cover. A horrible story of bad reasons to be good.

Never give it any thought.

I'm currently reading it. Often we hear it called the Big Book of Multiple choice, as confirmation bias will let you take whatever you want from it. But I've been thinking lately that it really wasn't MEANT to be read as such. The book is literally the length of a bible. Over most of the years of the bible's existence, most of the believers couldn't read. And during many of those years, the bible was only in Latin--a language that most believers didn't SPEAK, much less read (most couldn't read in the language they actually spoke anyway). The mystique of a giant, magical book outlining the meaning of the universe (and your relation to that universe) that only a select few could translate to the masses would be breathtaking to an illiterate, ignorant person. The sheer literary and political GALL to pull off that kind of psychological showmanship is very impressive. The masses will project whatever fears, hopes, dreams, or hatreds they have onto that book and through that book into the world, allowing the keepers of the book (churches, priests, kings, politicians, whoever) to steer the ignorant masses however they wish.

Makes for excellent cartridge paper for black powder reloading!

A book I probably wouldn't read if you paid me!

It's a fairtale. It's an interesting bit of anthropology. It's a problem because of how much power it's been given.

A story book of morals and nothing more. Fiction.

Well, it is a collection of writings that can be read as one meta-narrative, interpreted through the lens of the teaching associated with Christ Jesus. I did believe it to be inerrant and infallible, but I now seriously doubt that. However, some of the intellectual assaults can easily be refuted, like the supposed contradictions. I know the original language of the NT and so arguments about translational differences are not convincing.
For me, the real criticism comes with the extremely complex way one has to read the OT to arrive at the meta narrative as all pointing to Jesus. There are also very serious questions to be asked about the morality of the OT torah. Mass exterminations of whole races is not something that can be explained away as a foretaste of hell.
The body of teaching associated with the apostles is so detailed that it seems to fly in the face of a more humane approach the gospel accounts offer. However, if the letters of the NT are problematic, then so too the gospel accounts, for they are all written by believers. So how does one know what is to be believed and what is not? If the gospels and letters are seen as truth, then the result is set of morals that seem cruel and unwise at times.
So you can see my doubts about my earlier convictions.

I think it should be called the book of manipulation

A anthology of cultural trends and characters compiled in attempt to understand that which the tools to do so were not yet present.

Truth is what the facts are. The Bible was written by ignorant, bronze age, savages who thought the world was flat.All fable's have to start somewhere and somehow.Thats as close to the truth you'll get from the Bible.If you use the Bible as a moral guide, you'd be a criminal on ever continent on the planet.It promotes murder, slavery,incest, genocide, animal cruelty,spousal abuse, abuse, abortion,pillage, cannibalism. I could go on forever why it's a book I should avoid.

Its smoking paper

It's a badly-edited collection of bronze age stories, useful now only as examples of how primitive people thought. The books that were selected for inclusion by the Romans were those deemed useful when they invented xtianity in the 4th century.

The bible is a decoration to keep my family and friends happy since still believe the dogma. If wasn't for that I would thrown it the trash when I became an atheist.

A dusty old book on the shelf that barely had any meaning for me as a child, also Catholic, but ceased to have any meaning at all many years ago.

I've also come to a sort of conclusion that the ancients, not having TV or books (for the most part) used the spoken word for entertainment, therefore story tellers were popular people to have around. The Bible is a collection of those stories, a sort of written record of the TV soaps of thier day and like the soaps of today, not to be taken very seriously

It’s an interesting enough historical text full of delightfully ridiculous allegories.