The Bible is the central religious text of Christianity, which is the largest religious group in the world. It contains the Word of God, the sacred scriptures of the Christian religion, in which God reveals his will for the whole human race. The Bible has been called the most complete and final revelation, the one and only authoritative and final book from which all religious books, including the books of the Old Testament and the New Testament, are derived.

The stories in the Bible are not historical accounts, but religious texts written by the authors who believed that the events described in the texts were real and happened exactly as described.