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The Bible is a library, not a document. A collection of texts assembled over millennia. Some parts metaphors, some historic, some parts examples, etc.

Can you back that statement up or is that just your opinion?

I think the onus is on those who want to claim the bible is factual, actually.

It has a man who could:

* Walk on water;

* Turn it into wine;

* Copy and paste fish and bread;

* Heal lepers;

* Die and come back to life.

And asserts that he actually existed.

It's a 4-D projection/Rubik's cube manual about personal development, the logos, and the formation, nurturing, and triumph of a society, despite going up against what seems to be impossible odds. Simply calling it mythology or tying it's value as history or any other ill-conceived standard of truth and guidance we have now is missing the point.