> As with most of the stories in the bible, they tied them into some real events to ground them to the people, to myths of the age, then wove into them a fantas

> As with most of the stories in the bible, they tied them into some real events to ground them to the people, to myths of the age, then wove into them a fantasy story perhaps with enough grounding to reality to state "based on a true story", but probably not even that To the extent that the bible is inaccurate, it's certainly less a conspiracy to mislead and more a gradual loss of accuracy due to being passed down generations orally before eventually being written down. EDIT: I’m perplexed that this is a controversial opinion. What evidence is there that supports a conspiracy explanation?