The Bible is literally true, but each detail is not.

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If people didn't take the Bible literal then there wouldn't be a silly creationism evolution debate. You wouldn't need to deny a truth to prove a point that doesn't need to be proven. Most christion religions don't take a literal, inerrant spin on the Bible, that is mainly an American Phenomenon that I just don't get. I refuse to believe that my evangelical, mornonic boss is going to heaven and the Dalai Lama is going to hell for being a "non believer". Common sense decries that and it decries Bible Literalism.

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great point.I think it because the European's kicked out all the nut-bag crazy cults, and they had no where else to go but over here across the the Atlantic, which they told themselves was some promised land, and in thier delusions accepted it.I have not met any literalists, i think it may be a false stereotype (at least i hope it is).

i cant go that far. the Isrealites wrote much of it in a continueing history as they went. they were a literate people with thier own language, while i belive much of it is myth, it is still some of the best documented data that has survived that we have from back then.