The Bible was written by power-hungry priests whose goal was to found an awe-inspiring religion. To do so, they commandeered and perverted the creation lore of other races. Eden, Adam and Eve were taken from the Babylonian myth, the Deluge is only one of some 400 flood accounts, the names of Noah's sons are copies, as is Isaac's sacrifice, Moses is fashioned after the Sirian Mises, and the laws are taken from the Hammurabi code. Abraham, formerly Abram, is but the Hindu creator Brama with the a as prefix instead of suffix. Later the h was added making it Brahma, so with Abram, it acquired an h and became Abraham. In Persia, the name was Abriman, which also acquired an h and became Ahriman - "evil deity - the ruler of the kingdom of darkness." The Babylonians also had their Abarama. The Messiah is derived from the Egyptian Mahdi, "Savior" and some verses are verbatim copies of Egyptian scripture. Between Jesus and the Egyptian Horus, Gerald Massey found 137 similarities, and those between Jesus and Krishna run into the hundreds. How, then, can the Bible be a revelation to the Jews?
Scholars know the author of the original first two chapters of the Bible as the JHWHist. He was the Hebrew Homer, and as with the Greek, the god he wrote about was not meant to be worshiped. His characters were personifications. Myths. However this did not suit the priests so was removed, and the supernaturalistic and fratric version we have today was put in its place. The prerequisite of religion is a divine Avenger, with men as sinners dependent on priests for salvation. After all, who but priests consider sin the paramount issue, and write volumes of religious rites and rituals? To this end, the writer known as the Elohist rewrote the JHWHist characters.
Literally, the priestly account of creation is but kindergarten cosmology, but Western man and the Jews have no cosmological knowledge and cannot see that it is only those who are ignorant of cosmology that believe in his anthropomorphic creation. They even had to borrow a god from the eastern Jews.
This is taken from the book Deceptions And Myths of the Bible by Lloyd M. Graham. ISBN 0-8065-1124-9. It is a good introduction to cosmology, and after gaining a basic understanding, it is easy to see that only when read in that light, does the Bible make "sense". The author gives many, many examples of how priests stole from the mythologies of many different peoples, and quotes Polychronicon and the Dead Sea Scrolls: A History of Creation by Ranulf Higden, 1342; J. Paterson Smyth, B.D., Litt.D., D.C.L. (Archbishop of St. Andrew, Montreal), The Bible In the Making.