If text is not readable, then there are two possible explanations:
1. The author is genius (Presumption of Innocence),
2. The author is sick (Presumption of Guilt).
"The fool says in his heart there is no God."
Do you know why this is?
Because the fool does not understand that by destroying the concept of God, you are committing suicide.
Think about the incidence of abortion. From my studies of pie and bar graphs, a whopping
76% of those who are religiously unaffiliated are unopposed to abortion (this is the death of infants, and therefore future generations of humans). Or how about war?
Just about 7% of all wars were religious in origin (and this is accounting for Islam being more than all other religions put together), meaning 93% are entirely secular in cause. Btw, the Nazis and the Communists were (despite claims that Hitler was "Christian" the facts don't hold up) also extremely secular, and accounted for additional genocides, with Communism alone accounting for
some 65 million people dead and counting.
When people lose touch with God, they almost inevitably lose sight of the sense that all life is connected, that life itself is valuable. They move from unity consciousness to separation consciousness, and they become violent and self-destructive.
Why do you think the Bible was written? Oh wait, we have our answer.
As in the Days of Noah: Warnings for Today
Not long after God placed human beings on earth, mankind quickly headed toward self-destruction. Following Adam and Eve’s example of rejecting God’s instructions, humanity became increasingly hostile and corrupt. By the time of Noah, “the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5).
Lastly, you presume there is an author to the Bible, and not authors. Then you presume that it is not readable, when despite multiple authors each of which have their own opinions, certain common themes keep popping up. If you want a very readable account of the Bible, check out
The Book of God: The Bible as a Novel by Walter Wangerin. It tells the story from Abraham to Jesus, skipping a few accounts, as it would happen as a series of stories of the lives of people. It gets slow in the middle, with all the prophets and such, but there is definitely no readability issues. Therefore, neither #1 or #2 are correct. At the time of Abraham, humanity was wretched, and by the time of Noah generations later, it had gotten much much worse. In fact, you could easily read the story of Noah as:
- Melting of ice caps due to environmental destruction.
- The original Earth (which is now an asteroid field near Mars) blowing up, and having to move to another planet.
- Nuclear fallout.
Reading it as a flood is how it is written, but the story would not change if it were written as a scifi. In fact, the movie Passengers is very much a story of Noah (and Sleeping Beauty, Adam and Eve, and several others melded together). There are two people awake on this "ark", a male and a female, and over the course of the movie, they restore the state of things from a wrecked and ruined ship. While we never see the planet that they reach, the inside of the ship is basically a microcosm of Eden, representing the restoration of Original Intent.