It's genuine in the sense that the various writers who wrote it were believers and were honoring those beliefs about their religious leaders.
We have this now, believers in all sorts of things and writing books and lectures about their beliefs and making videos of it online, this scenario is alive and rampant in the world, especially on the internet...Do you think this alone makes the bible genuine?...
First we must recognize that it's a collection of 'books' written over centuries by multiple authors during their various time eras.
Even the religious leaders teach this, moving on...
As such there are many different points of view covering many different events. It wasn't collected until the Roman Catholic Church decided to create a 'Bible'....so the whole thing about it as one complete work representing Christianity is inaccurate to begin with.
I haven't seen any theory of the bible being one complete work, could you post a link of this?...
I don't believe that miracles happened like told in the Bible.
I also don't think miracles happened as written in the various books of the bible, I think many of the stories were twisted from more ancient stories written in sanskrit...
IMO they are stories meant to show faith and religious fervor which are meant to illustrate this to the faithful and even recruit others.
This is a good possibility or taken from older sources and rewritten to make these teaching stories...Sufi teaching uses many stories which are exaggerated and colourful for the intention of making an impression or instilling thought...Sufi stories abound of feats of miracles sometimes written to teach...
It's possible some might have been natural events that were taken to be signs from God...
Here's where the clouds form so to speak, which god, whose god, maybe the thunder was for the Islamic god not the Christian one but no one told the Christians so they blamed themselves, or maybe Shiva was causing a ruckus pissed off at some Hindus but the Jews hear the thunder and think Yahweh is angry at them?...
So everyone blaming themselves for pissing off their respective gods when a violent storm passes through the region, writes it in a book, calls it holy and a lesson learned before deciding to find a way to go to war with their neighbors...
I do believe that many of the locales and some events mentioned as in battles ,etc are probably as accurate as people could write about in those days. So I don't think all of it is completely false by any means .
I agree, the past has shown a remarkable skill at record keeping, I think many of the events and people were real accounts mixed in with hearsay or storytelling...
There are many lessons and parables ,etc...that still are relevant in this day and age. And parts are very well written prose with great tales.
I don't agree with this so much, take it for what it is, an old outdated book and put it aside...It has influenced the world pong enough, mankind needs to grow out of many old vices and habits...This book is one of the things humans need to let go of if we are going to advance into the future peacefully...
It's one of the worlds great pieces of literature and imho that;s how we should look at it....but not as literal truth.
We need to stop thinking this book came from a god and see it for what it is, an old book that's partially true and partially false...
Regarding the 'alien connection'...it's highly unlikely that that is the source of some of the events. I think that's wishful thinking by the alien crowd. But there are some very unusual tales in the Bible that make one think the original authors had wild imaginations.
This would be a good thread of its own...