The Bible, is it true?

To be honest I sincerely doubt the veracity of the bible, I doubt the veracity of the stories of God or Jesus.

What I do believe, however, is that the peoples of the old and new testaments had an overly inflated sense of morality and were compelled by their narcissism to impose those morals on others. In the OT days this meant death of everything that breathed, men,women, children, babies, cattle, sheep, camels, anyone, anything.

In NT times, this meant going into the highways and byways and compelling them to come to Jesus. This meant going to all nations and making ‘disciples’ because other peoples morals were wrong therefore they were sinners and thus wicked. Sure the mass murders stopped, but the threat of death was still there because the wages of sin is death  and you either believe in Jesus or you perish.

Two thousand years later millions of christians have the same sense of overly inflated morality and are still compelled by their narcissism to foist their beliefs on others, Christian ‘missionaries’ are all over the world working diligently to ‘make disciples, of all men. Notions of a punitive god run strong and deep. The wages of sin are still death, and the belief that you either believe in Jesus or perish is still prevalent.

For me, the veracity of the bible is irrelevant. Millions of ‘born-again’ people espouse a sense of higher morality and the need to “lead others to Christ.” Some even claim one cannot have morals w/o a belief in and acceptance of, God(Jesus) as their Lord and Savior. Millions still believe in Hell and in the eternal conscious torment of billions of people that “reject” Christ, in other words, if you reject Christian morality and beliefs you’re going to hell.

In conclusion, the bible doesn’t have to be true, millions of people believe it to be true and for them that is all that matters. For them this is their reality. It is what fuels their narcissism, it is what compels them to arrogantly proclaim that their way is the one and only true way. It has not changed in almost 6000 years and I doubt it will change in the next 6000 years.