The Old Testament is a mixture of fairy stories, superstition, law, myth and an awful lot of blood sacrifice and merciless slaughter. Not to mention all the boring lists of begat and begot...
The New Testament is a selected group of texts, the earliest written a good few years after Jesus' death and not cannonized into a book until centuries after, when it was decided what was heretical and what wasn't. Also contains its fair share of myth and fairy stories hinged somewhat uneasily onto the Old Testament, if only because without the two being attached the prophecies wouldn't work out in Jesus' favour.
Basically a compelling work of fiction, that to my amazement people still insist upon taking literally.
The New Testament is a selected group of texts, the earliest written a good few years after Jesus' death and not cannonized into a book until centuries after, when it was decided what was heretical and what wasn't. Also contains its fair share of myth and fairy stories hinged somewhat uneasily onto the Old Testament, if only because without the two being attached the prophecies wouldn't work out in Jesus' favour.
Basically a compelling work of fiction, that to my amazement people still insist upon taking literally.
