The bible course week 5 thoughts

Public access? Thought bible was only read by the masses during the Protestant revolution during king Henry the Viii time. Till then priests read the bible to the people with their interpretations???

What I understand then

Bible was always written with concept of us against them mentality 

Always a duality-  of a true god and other false gods,  of a chosen people and a forsaken rest of the world, of only one way to heaven and all other ways leading to hell, of protecting one's own against the rest 

These are basic human proclivities -A craving to belong , thereby necessitating exclusion - and writers have penned it down as gods law! 

So Judah and Israel the heroes in thisd'z narrative Egypt the villain 

Did god speak to the prophets ? Doubtlessly. However point remains we also hear what we want to hear.... There needs to be a meeting of minds here with gods word..... To even hear him... Is this sacrilegious? 

So god told men that when they conquer a land they must destroy it and take as slaves the women and children- really ? Or is that what the prophet chose to hear for it colluded with his own way of thinking? 

The bible then was also a tool for nation building. This is political purpose here.