I think the hard case has been won.

Nobody much goes along with the people who say the Bible is basically all true. It is not very difficult to point to bits that such people might not like, although I would have liked some more along the lines of 'shell fish are an abomination'.

The soft case is concerned with how useful is the Bible as a book, be it a very old one that many people have contributed to, bit still only one book in a very big world library?

I am not sure it is much use, but then again I haven't read it much. I have read lots of other books and I have heard much nonsense from people who think it is very important and it doesn't inspire me.