Here's how I see it. I look at the Bible the same way I look at any other myth. Reading about Theseus and the Labyrinth is the same for me as reading about Christ's crucifiction. Though I must admit, the Bible has some very well written stories in it for the time in which it was written, a time in which nearly barbaric people lived. It inspired me more than once to create my own fictional imaginative work.
But, for someone to believe that the stuff said in there is
REAL is something I can't understand, nor will I ever understand, nor do I want to understand.
Now I'm a concrete thinker. I believe that existence is a relative thing, and that something which may exist for us, cannot possibly exist for, say, an ant. That which we process through our five senses, is from our point of view, all existence. That's basically why I don't believe in God. I can't see him, I can't hear him, I can't smell him, I can't touch him, I can't taste him. For me, he doesn't exist. If one day I AM able to identify God by using my five senses, or maybe evolving some new senses with which I am able to consciously percieve a figure such as God, maybe I'd start believing in him.
Of course, there is a very high possibility that there are things completely abstract to our senses, meaning that we aren't able to percieve them. These things, creatures, objects or whatever could very well be right under our noses, and there's nothing we can do about it because we can't percieve of their existence as we are currently. Maybe, through evolution, we will able to gain the means to percieve such currently abstract figures, maybe not, maybe we will be able to percieve some of them, and some of them not.
But if we cannot percieve God, that could also mean he doesn't exist. There is no proof that any living being has ever percieved God. It is very possible that it's just a myth, and I believe it is. I also believe that people are delusional when they try to 'contact' God, through prayer or otherwise. Because if there truly is a God, our voice can't reach him, because if our senses can't percieve him, most likely they can't come into contact with him. Therefore, believing in such a being as God is irrational and a waste of time in my opinion.
The bottom line, Jinx, is that you shouldn't be searching for the truth in the Bible. If it was there, someone would've found it already