One of the reasons the Bible is so large and has so many Books is the Bible's own pre-programmed "self preservation." It takes a significant portion of a lifetime to become acquainted with the basic text well enough to analyze them critically. By the time you has completed the effort, the better part of your lifetime has already passed. The Bible just "out lives" all it's detractors and critics. It takes too much work to read the book for an ordinary human to accomplish the task.
Another reason it is so large is to defy logical criticism. Almost any social view can be found to be championed by some portion of some book of the Bible. Therefore, a response to any criticism can be found pre-existing somewhere it the text before the common criticisms are even voiced. Again, it takes the better part of a lifetime to even understand the issues, or voice a concern, and by that time you are almost dead, so it doesn't matter anyway.
The real truths of life are brief. They are concise and accurate descriptions of the way the world works, like "A squared plus B squared equals C squared" Truth is not a collection of obscure and colorful descriptions of things that may, or may not not exist, but there is no possibility to really know anyway.
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William Schaeffer
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