In my opinion the bible is a great work of literature. It took many real stories and documented them. Though many stories have been found to have been exaggerated, it is based in truth (e.g. historians believe that when moses "parted the red sea" he led his people through a shallow during low tide and the egyptian chariots got stuck because of the mud and they had to give up the chase). I don't really think that the bible is as much cold reading as it is teaching lessons.
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What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is, what can you make people believe you have done.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet
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