The bible is elastic?

A friend sent me a "short" sound clip concerning the Bible.

http://www.sydneyanglicans.net/images/uploads/mp3/Answering_Wrong_Assumptions/01_The_Bible_is_Elastic.mp3

It seems that everything that "endorses" the bible is the bible itself. The new testament at the very least. The old testament has the endorsement of Jesus Christ which we learn from the Bible.

And that depends on whether a person believes that the bible is the Word of God. As he put it, "book, Jesus, Scripture". You can read the book, but you need to believe and accept Jesus Christ before it becomes more than just a book. It's still about faith in the end.

I do agree on the point that religion should not be forced upon a person. Yet sometimes, when Christians learn that I'm a non-believer, they do get a certain gleam in their eyes.

My parents are pretty open minded, or maybe I should say non-religious minded. They do have certain ceremonies which are rooted in religion, but when they perform such ceremonies, it feels less religious and more traditions. They perform them because they were thought to do so by their parents (my grand parents), and the most amazing thing is that they never forced us to partake in such ceremonies. I guess you might say that they're not very devout, but it also means that they've seen that religion is a part of life, and not a way of life.

And that is one of the lessons that I've learned from them.

That religion should complement life, and not to have your life conforming to your religion or to have your religion become your life.

Mixing in a group which thinks the same things, believe in the same beliefs is good, but you're just setting yourself up for a life in which it'll be difficult to encounter new ideas and new beliefs. In the end, you become less whole as a person, which is what I believe God does not want.