[so_real]

You've done non-Christians and Christians alike a dis-service. You read the Bible as a work of fiction (if you read it at all) and therefore you view it as a work of fiction and now condemn it as a work of fiction. It's not a work of fiction and to treat it as such is pitiful. The Bible is a history and textbook. The life of Jesus, for example, has been corroborated in the records of hostile witnesses as well as in the New Testament. Once you give the Bible proper respect and read it as it was intended to be read, you might learn something from it and your life might be changed. Until then, you won't get any more out of the Bible than you would watching HBO on TV. But just because you choose to be incapable of learning from it, does not mean that it isn't there to be learned from, and that all others choose to be as incapable as you do.

[Skywalk]

Au contraire. There is much wisdom and beauty in the Bible. I consider the Song of Solomon to be among the great works of literature, and Ecclesiastes is the best book overall.

There is also SOME historical fact in the Bible. I would never deny that much. I simply understand the total truth about the work of any sacred text of any religion. There is much editing, myth-making, etc that go into the process.

As for hostile witnesses that speak about Jesus, you wouldn't be talking about that edited passage that was inserted into Josephus' writing, would you?