Is the bible to be taken literally.

I used to be atheist because nothing used to make sense and there was no way christianity and the bible was at all viable... astral projection taught me there was more to existance than i had been acknowledging but it was the exact answer i had been searching for and because of it i now lead an extremely spiritual life...

i've heard so many priests, preachers and christians call the bible "The word of god" but really it was written by man infact it was written by men who met men who met jesus. This just doesnt cut it for me but I do acknoledge that there are MANY great spiritual truths in the bible its just too muddled up with stories and contradictions so i take it for what it is... a book of events and stories written by men who met men who met jesus. I guess in a court of law the bible would be considered hearsay? (but thats just an observation/thought and holds no weight in this debate)

people usually take all their beliefs from one source and regard it as the absolute truth... in my opinion thats just silly! God had many incarnations on earth... buddha, Krishna, Christ (theres more) but he incarnated many times to teach as much as possible... so in my opinion it pays to look at all sources and find the correlations between them before you make up your mind exactly what to believe and how to live.

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