If you could re-write the bible could you improve upon it?

Post Enlargement times suggest non-commandments.

1. Be open-minded and be willing to alter your beliefs with new evidence.

2. Strive to understand what is most likely to be true, not to believe what you wish to be true.

3. The scientific method is the most reliable way of understanding the natural world.

4. Every person has the right to control of their body.

5. God is not necessary to be a good person or to live a full and meaningful life.

6. Be mindful of the consequences of all your actions and recognize that you must take responsibility for them.

7. Treat others as you would want them to treat you, and can reasonably expect them to want to be treated. Think about their perspective.

8. We have the responsibility to consider others, including future generations.

9. There is no one right way to live.

10. Leave the world a better place than you found it.

In the beginning, there was no God.

Then the universe banged, expanding rapidly into a swarm of subatomic particles, freezing out of the vacuum energy of spacetime. Density and heat dropped enough, and there was light. And it was good.

Dark matter imbalace sowed the seeds of galaxy clusters, and galaxies, which were fruitful and made the first stars. And it was good.

Around these stars formed the first planets, and their many moons. And it was good.

Several generations of stars were born, lived, and died, enriching the interstellar medium with heavier elements, forged in their cores and supernovas. And it was good.

Eventually the Sun and Earth formed, and so began the passage of days and years. And it was good.

Then the planet Theia crashed into Earth and threw up a ring which made the Moon. That was not so good at first, but good later since it stabilized the Earth's wobble.

The Earth cooled and rain fell, for thousands of years, forming the waters. Volcanoes rose from the depths and pierced the waves: the first dry land. And it was good.

Life evolved in water, and later evolved to harvest the energy of sunlight. The first plants. They breathed carbon dioxide and exhaled oxygen. The rocks rusted. But it was good. (and don't forget the bacteria and fungi, they are good, too).

New creatures breathed this oxygen and exhaled carbon dioxide, and fed on the plants. The first animals. And it was good. Unless you got eaten, of course. The circle of life.

Life got complex which led to the first humans, then language, agriculture, civilization, writing (including alternate Bilbes). It was mostly good. Except for war, slavery, mysogeny, and some aspects of religion. People were fruitful and multiplied. And wrote books and filmed shows. And YouTube was born. Somewhat good. Especially funny cat videos.

And there still was no God. Only in one's imagination.

Christopher Hitchens came up with a new ten commandments. It makes good sense:

I: Do not condemn people on the basis of their ethnicity or color.
II: Do not ever use people as private property.
III: Despise those who use violence or the threat of it in sexual relations.
IV: Hide your face and weep if you dare to harm a child.
V: Do not condemn people for their inborn nature.
VI: Be aware that you too are an animal and dependent on the web of nature, and think and act accordingly.
VII: Do not imagine that you can escape judgment if you rob people with a false prospectus rather than with a knife.
VIII: Turn off that fucking cell phone.
IX: Denounce all jihadists and crusaders for what they are: psychopathic criminals with ugly delusions.
X: Be willing to renounce any god or any religion if any holy commandments should contradict any of the above.

much of the bible was edited by corrupt individuals twisting gods message, all the wars and damnation in the bible is put there by man, not god, so part of the bible is gods true message and much edited by man.

Make it more clear that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are to do the judging, NOT HUMAN...

You can judge your own sins, but not look down upon others for their sins, as you are supposed to welcome them, and wash their feet, not shun them because you judged them.

Instead of it being all about the Jews, make it about the Congo Pygmies or the Inuit (Eskimos).

If I wrote an atheist Bible, I would have the same commandments the other users responded already. If I included God in the Bible, I would have God's creation, including humans, already ok and in no need for constant anger and retribution and finally no need to send my son to be murdered for my own poor creation. God would have created everything perfect the first time and avoid all the murder and hate and violence.

The Bible is already a cherry-picked hodge podge compilation of other writings. It's not really a standalone text. You can change the whole thing just by picking different cherries out of the extended source material.

I wrote my own already and the actual christian bible is so old id just scrap it.

I’d probably get bored and never finish it.

Dont worry about it the democrap communist natzi's are doing a good job of it as it is to lie scam deciet con and control is just as they are with wgats left of our constitution and bill of rights