What is the central theme of the entire Bible in one word (if possible)?

From beginning to end, the bible is all about using fear of nonexistent beings — monsters under the bed, monsters in the closet — to control the minds and behavior of people gullible enough to believe evil nonsense.

OBEY!

Everyone “lusts” and no one repents of lust, as in not immediately lusting again. The apostle Paul said all adulterers go to hell, so all christians are going to hell!

Is it ok to be spanked by your parents if you are not in bed in your set bedtime?

Homosexuality is an “abomination” to god. Oddly, this is the only abomination most christians worry about, for other people. What about the abominations above? What about christians conquering lust themselves? If homosexuals go to hell for not conquering their desires, then obviously christians will go to hell for not conquering theirs.

Sexual desire (“lust”) is evil, and to desire someone is the same as committing adultery:

Except that it’s all nonsense, including “hell,” which was never once mentioned by the biblical god or his prophets in bible passages covering 4,000 years from Adam and Eve to the last prophets.

Have you ever had sex with your mother-in-law? If so, how was it and did your wife ever find out?

In the Old Testament you could be stoned to death, for thinking independently.

In the New Testament, you will go to an infinitely cruel, purposeless “hell” for thinking independently.

The bible proposes nonsense as “the wisdom of god”:

Why does my narcissistic ex told me that he f*cked and sleep with other woman and then at the end says that it also happened because of me?

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Women wearing men’s clothes is an “abomination” to god. Of course the vast majority of christian women have worn pants.

“Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.” (Matthew 5:28)

What can I do after 18 cops raided my home, without a warrant, seeking a person who didn't live there and wasn't there, and also went through all of my stuff? The person wasn't on the lease, and they didn't see him enter.

Making love is evil, unless sanctioned by marriage. Of course the vast majority of christians have sex outside marriage.

What happens if one doesn’t OBEY! the dictates of the creators of such nonsense?

The central theme of the bible, in a single word, is:

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Human beings eating bacon, pork and shellfish is an “abomination” to god. Of course the vast majority of christians eat such “abominations” while claiming to “love” god, who they claim is the same “yesterday, today and forever” and thus still abominates such foods. How can people who “love” god do something he loathes? Is their love a “sham” because they love bacon more than god?

And thus coupled with OBEY! is the parallel dictate “Never, ever, think for yourself!”