The only thing I can ever let go is someone who says "I know there is no proof of god or anything of these stories, but I believe them anyway". Ok. You're choosing to believe something, and though I wouldn't choose something like that for myself, it is what it is. But when the words fact and bible are used together, it's just....all credibility is gone. It's clear in that case the person fancies themselves an intellectual, but of what? Loose stories, loose findings? An ancient Chicken Soup for the Mass Murderer's Soul turned into Chicken Soup for the Insecure Dissociative Personality Disorder's Soul? Jesus surely didn't speak English, if nothing else. It doesn't have to necessarily negate the idea of a creator but it surely muddies the credibility of this book.