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I expect people believed in God before the Bible was written, otherwise they wouldn't have written it in the first place.
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I guess that's a chicken and egg situation. I've always assumed that the bible is a mostly a work of fiction, perhaps with many stories of travelers in it, and that it started to take a life of its own when people started to actually believe it. Like those Star Wars nerds who believe The Force is real.
But yeah, I suppose you could turn it around and say it was written as a tribute to god. That's something we'll probably never know.