If you want to understand the source material allusions and allegory and metaphors in Western literature, then the stories found in Bible is a great place to start. Even better are the Cliffsnotes for the Old and New Testament, because a) Bible = TL;DR and b) footnotes!
The key word in all the above is
stories. Anyone who actually believes that the Bible is a verbatim historical record of actual events or a clear picture of who/what God might be/do/think obviously has not spent any time reviewing the vast array of biblical criticism out there.
Exactly like the Bible, this video also offers
a story incontrovertible truth about God.