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The Bible, for all its riches, is not a document of social history.

History is only written from what remains.

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

Once we truly grasp the message of the 'New Testament', it is impossible to read the 'Old Testament' again without seeing Christ on every page, in every story, foreshadowed or anticipated in every event and narrative.

It is fair to say the New Testament is the most ethically sophisticated of the great scriptures; the proper comparison for the Qur'an is with the Old Testament - against which it holds its own.

The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.