And don't forget that the bible has been changed many times in the past so that it can be used to control. It once talked about reincarnation, but the church found it hard to install the fear of god into someone for their sins when they could just reincarnate.
I imagine some bored monk locked away in a chamber day after day translating the bible may have spiced up more than a few of the stories just to make his day a little more entertaining
It's the best selling book of fictional stories nothing more, some good, some bad, some nonsense and in my opinion thou would have to be a bit daft in the head to believe it as gospel, which clearly some people are
