Is the bible literally hearsay?

That argument only partially applies. There's plenty of material (particularly the New Testament) that is not dictated by God. It is the understanding, experiences and insights of its authors (such as Paul and James).

Unique circumstances. The Bible was written over a span of some 1,600 years, from 1513 B.C.E. to about 98 C.E. Many of the approximately 40 writers thus lived centuries apart. Their occupations were varied. Some were fishermen, others were shepherds or kings, and one was a physician.

A harmonious message. The Bible penmen developed one central theme: the vindication of God’s right to rule mankind and the fulfillment of his purpose by means of his heavenly Kingdom, a world government. That theme is introduced in Genesis, expanded on in the books that follow, and brought to a climax in Revelation.

Agreement on details. The Bible writers agreed on even minute details, but often this harmony was clearly unintentional. Note an example. The Bible writer John tells us that when a large crowd came to hear Jesus, Jesus specifically asked Philip where to buy some loaves to feed the people. (John 6:1-5) In a parallel account, Luke says that this took place near the city of Bethsaida. Earlier in his book, John happened to have said that Philip was from Bethsaida. (Luke 9:10; John 1:44) So Jesus naturally addressed his question to one of the men who had lived nearby. The details agree—but with an obvious lack of intent to make them harmonious.#

That was the chosen method of God at the time and God repeatedly entrusted the task to specific individuals to carry out and obviously allowed the human induced "errors" . After sending numerous messengers to guide us, God obviously was satisfied so to speak with the state of progress humanity had made by the seventh century that He found it fit to reduce the entire process and material into a single 100% verifiable book preserved forever. Imagine that. It is important to point out here that the often raised objection as to why God did not preserve the Bible for instance is illogical because God by gifting us the Quran and taking the responsibility of preserving it preserved the original message of the Bible as well.

You are welcome to read mu blog post on the issue of verification by Googling "the mother of all arguments" :)

This is how I look at the Bible: Read the Jesus parts, parts of the book of psalms, and recycle other archaicly innacurate, primative, narrow-minded, herd-controlling rubbish. That was all added by men in order to use god to hypnotize and control people. "The inarguable Word of God" makes it impossible to go against it, scapegoating it to mind control millions, and murder millions, justifiably. Half of the "christians" that half came about since jesus, are certainly suffering like **** for the nonsense they justify through god. Biggest billshit ever. Certain parts were also written by known cerifiable lunatics of their time, undiagnosed schizophrenia is likely the cause of their whimsical tales.

Take what you like, leave the rest

Oh coarse the norms of society would be included, when they were writing it. Similar to everyone who thought the world was flat it was recorded exactly people now look at it like they were all idiots. Imagine 3,000 years from now if we haven't already killed ourselves over our personal beliefs. That generation will look back on the history today and think that all of us were barbarians making jokes about beliefs of the 2,000's.

The man SAID that a god told him things. This same man was known to have mental issues.

Yes. The bible is second hand fantasy.

I would go with historical fiction but yeah that would fit too.

Its racist homophobic nonsense. Should be burned!