Well, what would you want to discuss about it? It has quite glaring and obvious errors and contradictions, and some stories and characters have some similarities with gods, characters and myths from earlier civilisations.
I should probably say a contradiction to get the arguments rolling. I believe the Bible is quite logical, and contains no errors.
It seems that its perfectly possible for someone to store two of every land species of witch there are more 3 million on a boat. Then have the boat go through a worldwide storm that lasts 40 days and 40 nights. Then he repopulates the world with no problem from inbreeding even though he only brought close relatives and his wife.
Of course, especially considering the boat was actually smaller than the Titanic, there was plenty of room. And now that I think about it, where the hell did all that water come from? Space? There's not nearly enough water to flood the entire planet.
The glaciers obviously melted and quickly turned to condensation in the atmosphere to provide the water. On the matter with the boat, this is when people just start exclaiming faith in God and such nonsense out of a lack of an explanation.
Even if all glaciers melted, it'd still not be enough to cover the entirety of the earth's surface with water.
Fine, how about the plagues. We first know that toads actually can rain from the sky, there must have simply been a locust migration, a nearby clan war filled the river with blood, and a large epidemic spurred through the city at a random time as with any epidemic. Am I making this too easy?
You mean the seven thingamajigs in Egypt? I've seen a show that explained every single one of them. Apparently, the water was red because of a certain species of algae, which also caused the population of frogs to grow exponentially or something. Anyway, it wasn't some kind of evil magical miracle.
Well i'm pretty sure water is used in the production of wine. I hear Jesus also turned a chicken into a meal.
Sane Christians only think that this is purely metaphorical. Of course the bible is a fictional book. Why would you even try to point out the contradictions and errors in a work of fiction? All of these (albeit crap) stories aren't meant to be taken seriously but moreover have a clear underlying message. It's pointless to argue over it's "errors", if you want to argue about something, argue about the actual message that the stories give out. You can piss around about "errors" when you get confronted with a fundamentalist. There is only one on the forum called "GeneralOfCarthage", if I'm correct.
In like a thousand years or something, the people may regard the bible the same way we look at Greek mythology. If the Bible was just a book, it'd be pretty cool.
Bluntly, after 2000 years not all the facts are going to be correct. We can only hope to get the general picture from the stories. Also, no shit the Bible contradicts itself. There's writings from a shitton of different people, at different times, and at different locations. Hell, if you got a bunch of Atheists to write a manifesto and compiled all their different writings you'd get contradictions too.
