The Bible, what is it? Is it a historic record of Jewish history and authors? Is it the inspired word of God? Is it a Jewish reader with ultimate lessons in it? Are scriptures just texts the ancient authors felt important enough to place in a Temple? What relevance do these works have today?
Many texts of the Bible and other scripture works claim historic references. The Bible even has books of historic prophecies. Archeological finds are slowly uncovering these claims may be true. So, are the religious historical claims any true? Can we believe there were miracle workers, prophets, and teachers of things beyond this world's everyday experiences?
To many of the Bible's religions, the collection of books that compose it are the inspired words of God. The Bible and other scriptures are believed to contain revelations and important lessons God wanted to share with His Creation. Lessons like there is a Creator, He cares about us and what we do to each other, and has plans for our future after the death of our mortal bodies.
The Bible and scriptures, in general, have come under a lot of suspicions such as fraud, superstitions, if not even errors made about early attempts at explaining the world and our place in it. The Bible in particular comes with the great promise of a gift-bearing living God we can connect with and enjoy the blessings of in our lifetime.
Whatever you think of The Bible it does provide interesting questions in our day and age. Namely is there a God Creator and does He really care? Are there spiritual gifts God wants to share with His Creation? Is there an afterlife? Until these questions are totally dismissable due to proofs of such being nonsense we have The Bible's answers to these questions...