Guide to Bible

Suppose you had never heard of Christianity, and then one Sunday morning, a stranger standing in a pulpit, told you about a Holy book whose authors could not be authenticated and whose contents, written hundreds of years ago, included blood curdling legends of slaughter and intrigue – fables about unnatural happenings such as virgin births, devils that inhabit human bodies and talk, people rising from the dead on the third day and ascending to live in the clouds and suns that stand still. Suppose, he then asked you to believe that an uneducated, unkempt man described in that book was a God who could get you into an eternal fantasy- place called Heaven, when you die. Would you, as an intelligent rational person, even bother to read such utter nonsense, let alone pattern your entire life upon it? Ruth Green-