a lot of stuff in the bible can be backed up by evidence from archeologists. the jews in Egypt and Moses for example.

I keep hearing that on this site but that is the fairy tale to me. I know the Bible is God's Word and actually they are starting to prove alot that is in the Bible. They've even found the site of the Exodus when God seperated the waters for the Isrealites to walk through. From what I understand, they've found chariots and bones. Alot of it is being proven by science, I just LOVE that part ;)

There is SOME historical documentation to back SOME of the things written in the bible, but too much of what is written in the bible is pure allegory and therefore highly suspect in my opinion. The only thing I would accept as the actual word of a god would be actual first-hand speech directed at me from a real god standing before me. Otherwise, I'll continue to believe that the bible was written by multiple, fallible men from their own personal interpretation describing what they think their idea of a god should or would say.

NO not at all. it is incredible how much the WORD OF GOD has changed my life. secondly the people who write that answer have no clue what is in the BIBLE, the "historical books are only an amount of the BIBLE, it is also filled with books of wisdom and prophecy and poetry...so even IF the BIBLE was a fairy tale it would only be about 20% a fairy tale but those parts of the BIBLE are being realized by archeologists more and more to be true and accurate... Thanks GOD... +2

It's a collection of fiction written by uninformed people living in the middle east.

No, fairy-tales are for under 6 or under 12s at the most. The amount of incest, envy, jealousy and threats in Bible are phenomenal. e.g. Ezekiel:16 shows up God as a ‘dirty old man’ grooming an orphan for sex and later an impotent jealous husband who can neither 'satisfy' nor punish his adulterous wife: sexy ‘Jerusalem’, who slept for FREE with practically the whole of the known world!! * Bible-authors have a fetish for incest between older men and teenage girls: e.g., Lot's 2 daughters plying him with wine and sleeping with him in turns, simply to get pregnant [Genesis:19: 31-38] Tamar seducing Judah, her lecherous father-in-law, using a veil (!), which was the uniform of prostitutes in those days, simply because Judah wouldn’t let his youngest son take her as wife [Genesis:38: 13-19] * Bible God is non-vegetarian with fetish for ‘slaughter of first-born’ over fruit of soil from toil: Preference to non-vegetarian over vegetarian (offerings), herders over farmers, Genesis-4:3-7. Fostering inter-brother hate: Genesis-4:8-9 God is protector of brother-murderer! Genesis-4:10-15 God & Noah foster inter-brother hate & sanction of hereditary slavery: Genesis-9:18-27 Hate of other-god-believers: Deuteronomy-13:1-18, Leviticus-20:1-5 Stone disobedient son to death: Deuteronomy-21:18-21, Leviticus-20:9 Kill man, woman, child, livestock-Siege of Jericho-Joshua-6:21, 26 Divine plunder: Joshua-6:19, 24 Divine plunder by espionage & with assistance of prostitute[s]: Joshua-2:1, 6:25 Divine terror: Song of Moses-Deuteronomy-32:23-27. * And this is a very very small sample… just the beginning! It's a crying shame, really!

No I think it's based on some truth but really a mixture of truth and misinformation

Not completely. Some things in the bible are historical facts which have been verified by other sources. However, much of the bible is, as you put it, fairy tales.

fairy tales make sence , and nobody has been killed over them . and nobody forces them on kids . and they dont put down other fairy tails , or blame their villin on others . and the stories were not stolen from other older fairytales . and most of all .... it says fairytale on the cover ! so i guess i dissagree ? ;-)

not a book of fairy tales but of how god came and what he did for all of us.

I would say that statement pretty well says it all.

I am enjoying reading all the answers that say NO or YES. How do we actually know if it is all true or all false , or part fairy tale. We don't! Only God knows and the people who wrote it. :-)

Not at all. I believe it to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly.

No. It mentions angels but no fairies.

It is a book of fairytales, to the mis- and uninformed.