[andyfox]

The Bible is the sacred writings of a religion. It was written by men who claimed it was the word of God. It's no different than The Little Red Book in which the words of Mao were treated as pronouncements from on high. It too was a bible.

You say that the Bible is the word of God. I say hogwash. Same way I say that the men who flew the airplanes on 9/11 were acting on the word of God is hogwash. It's based on mumbo-jumbo and magic and miracles; these things don't exist in the same way poker rushes don't exist. When the Church attempts to prove the miraculous, it embarrasses itself. I've read the Immaculate Heart publications "The Whole Truth About Fatima: Science and the Facts," recommended to me by a believer on this forum. Here's a sample of some of the "facts':

"With a clarity that is altogether divine, the Blessed Virgin Mary there reveals to us in the Secret everything necessary to our souls for their eternal salvation, to our nations for their temporal well-being, and finally everything necessary to the Church for its victory over the powers of hell, which have been unchained."

That's what the Bible is about. The Church's victory.