>> All of that aside, here's an interesting observation: There's no
>> evidence that God exists. There's no evidence that Adam or Eve existed.
>
> But we are playing "What if" game! Just assume that whatever fantasy is
> true, then tell...

What if I'm right about everything. Given that this is true, do you can 
concede that I am right about everything?

>> In fact, a lot of people regard the entire Bible as something that
>> should be in the "fiction" section. But think about this for a moment:
>> the Bible *itself* most definitely *does* exist. It's a real book, and
>> it has existed for a very long time.
>
> can you define long time ?
> The bible (which Bible ?) has been made as an assembly of various texts
> from various sources, along various translation paths, which were highly
> disputed at the beginning of the church

> Whatever is called the "New Testament" is just the final result of that
> evolution. About the "Old testament"... it should be, as of Jewish
> sources, in Hebraic texts (Torah ?).

The more I look at this, the more complicated it becomes.

Short version: The original text of the Bible has long, *long* since 
been lost to history. All that remains now is a trillion different 
versions, translations, editions, revisions, edits and alterations of 
it. If you stare hard enough, you can kinda sorta figure out how one 
version is related to some other version. We will probably never know 
what the originals said, when they were written, who wrote them, or even 
what language. (It seems even the "original" Hebrew was based on earlier 
documents.)

All of which makes it utterly laughable when people say that "the" Bible 
is inerrant. Uh, yeah, which one exactly? (Ah, but wait - isn't that why 
we have a dozen conflicting religions based on the same bundle of texts?)

Regardless, this is an *old* document.

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