Most of the people who have actually read the Bible see it for what it is-- humanity's very first attempt to organize the growing masses, and stop them from murdering their supposed leaders.
Our very first attempt at making laws. Our first attempt at defining geography, history and boundaries for how to treat fellow human beings. Our first attempt at science and medicine. Our first attempt at societal norms.
Like most first attempts at virtually anything, it missed the mark other than for the people at that time at the very best. They'd still be sitting on the hillsides waiting for Jesus while they maintained their lamp oil.
The rest of the time the Bible, Christian theology, Jewish theologians and Muslim proponents have been making excuses for the lark for about 1700 years. It is codified as Apologetics, a branch of the Catholic Church, orthodoxy, and evey other desert god's subsistence and subjugation. Why is that? Couldn't Jesus or his dad make the world better without relying on theological pursuits by men who need to control other men, and their deeded property, women?
Today we have science that can actually imagine that God doesn't live in the clouds, other than those amyloid plaque clouds that are responsible for geriatric dementia.