The Bible has inspiring passages such as the Lord’s Prayer, the Good Samaritan, and the Woman at the Well.
But it also has plenty of un-inspiring stuff. The Old Testament justifies slavery, and I’m not convinced making a distinction between holding a Jew in slavery vs. a foreigner carries the day in any kind of meaningful way. And Paul’s letter to Philemon is tricky. He’s pleading with a slaveowner to release the slave, and per at least one Christian source, the “owner” does release Onesimus. But what if the owner did not say Yes? [And I’m not sure we know whether the Yes was said right away]
I’m willing to respect the Bible as an ancient text, the same as Homer, no more, no less.