The Bible (n.) is (i.e. creation and the fall) not reflective of literal events, but rather, of realities symbolically expressed. They are thus neither subjective ideas nor objective facts, but finite modes of perception correlated with something infinite.
The Bible (n.) is a structure beyond the hypothetical.
The Bible (n.) is historically accurate.
The Bible (n.) is hysteria or insanity.
The Bible (n.) is its poetic and imaginative meaning.
The Bible (n.) is likely to last longer than most other forms of human communication.
The Bible (n.) is origin in nature. In between these visions of creation comes the Incarnation, which presents God and man as indissolubly locked together in a common enterprise.
The Bible (n.) is a teacher of the knowledge of myth; the poets teach the experience of it.
The Bible (n.) is the body of words through which one can see the world as a cosmos, as an order, and where one can see human nature as something redeemable, as something with a right to survive.
The Bible (n.) is the only work of literature that ever succeeded in getting beyond literature.
The Bible (n.) is the record of it, but in the creative imagination, which from palaeolithic times has been the central force driving humanity from mere survival into life more abundantly.
The Bible (n.) is to be regarded as 'inspired' in any sense, sacred or secular, the editing and conflating and redacting and splicing and glossing and expurgating processes all have to be taken as inspired too.
The Bible (n.) is not a structure of doctrine, not a structure of propositions, but a collection of stories making up one single story... namely the interrelationship of God and man.