The bible is not a fairy tale.
If it is anything else, it is instruction on how to govern and be a citizen.
The tora is exactly that too, its a constitution, and a cultural guideline for a people who had lost their homeland around 600BC they used the tora to maintain cultural identity while being slaves and spread out through the entire north African and Mesopotamian regions by Babylon's and Egyptians and romans and Greeks and Assyrians. They got hammered for like 1000 years.
They lost everything. Including their home land.
...But for 8000 years,
unlike any culture that has ever existed ever, they have remained
a single Jewish culture, true to their heritage, so much, 2800 years after their homeland was destroyed, they just got it back in 2017.
The Bible/Tora is powerful, because it is
REAL. Most of it is about reality, how to behave socially, how to farm, how to save money, how to build a home, very little of it is about Jesus.
Veeeeeeeeeeery little.
The book of revelations is not prophecy, its a historical 1:1 record of the destruction of the temple of Israel in 70 AD and a unification of the 7 leading churches that were spreading Christianity about how to avoid falling into the same pitfalls that previous churches/empires fell because of.
The book of daniel was written 150BC thats 500 years after the events it writes about took place,
after the fall of the 4 empires that it "prophecies" but if you look at those 4 empires historically, they were the record of where the jews had ben for the last 500 years, what happened to them, and the history of their citizenry.
It was a guide that told you,
"even if they throw you in furnaces, or fed you to lions, if you stay true to our culture, you will be rewarded in the afterlife." But what it really wants is for you to just be true to the culture, the reward is irrelevant to governance.
Its honestly the most brilliant book ever written, if you look at it
secularly instead of like a 90s ashiest that hates Christianity. Like its a evil fairy tale.
Its a GOOD book of how to live life as a GOOD person, that will live to be OLD and WISE with many kids and a happy family. To be full of joy during the worst times of life, to look towards the horizon instead of at the present, to build your self up to be a
stronger citizen.
If you have a problem with fairy tales in the new testament you should watch this lil documentary, it will get you off big time.