The bibles not worth diddly anyway. Sure, you have somethign to believe in, thats nice, but the book is fallible. Anyone who believes the Old Testament is free of contradictions should re-read it several times.

God did not write this document -- it was written by men and no matter how divinely inspired it may have been, the ideas were filtered through the consciousness of the writers before being recorded.

The New Testament, likewise, was written by men, and according to what is known as the Higher Criticism -- The use of scientific techniques of literary criticism to establish the sources of the books of the Bible -- the gospels were written several decades after the death of Jesus, and who in their right mind could assert that the words of Jesus could be precisely remembered for several decades?

An interesting exercise is to obtain a red-letter edition of the New Testament (in which the words actually attributed to Jesus are in red) and see how much of the Christian dogma is actually based on the words of Jesus, as distinct from the personal ideas of the Gospel writers.

The most frequently quoted verse from the New Testament: ??John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.? Are NOT the words of Jesus, but of the author of the gospel.