what does the Bible say ?

Wow, that's a broad question. The Bible begins with the heaven and earth being created. Something happens between verse 1 and verse 2 (there is a long unknown span of time here during which God's top Angel, Lucifer, rebels, causes chaos, and leaves the galaxy in peril). When we return in verse 2, the earth has been damaged and judged. It is without form, void and lifeless and completely covered with water (God judged it with a flood, killing all the evil creatures (some which may have been similar in form to man but were not created in God's image like us). Now, God repairs the earth in the seven days of creation. The whole purpose of this restoration is the creation of man, created in the image and likeness of God - having the outward appearance of God - an empty vessel to be filled with the life of God. However, God is a being of free-will and anything created to be like Him must also have free will. So God gives man a choice. He tells man to eat of The Tree of Life (which would impart God's life into man) and to never eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. However, man is tempted by God's enemy (who was cast down to the earth as part of his punishment - his full punishment will not be completed until the end of this age) and man eats of the wrong tree. God's enemy told man that he would become like God by doing this; this is ironic since God wanted to fill man with His life and nature making Him like God (this is because God wants a counterpart - hence the church is refered to as the Bride of Christ in the New Testament). However, man is ruined by eating the wrong tree and the evil nature of satan is injected into man's being and man begins to sin. His form and likeness his damaged, he is no longer after God's kind but becomes something new called mankind (or flesh). Man continues to mess up and takes fall after fall until he is fully fallen and consumed with sin. However, God loves His creation and so instead of destroying it, He promises that the enemy will be destroy and all creation will be restored. The rest of the Bible is the story of God's continuing love. The Old Testament shows man's continuing failure, God's persistence despite man's failure, and gives the prophecies of the fufillment of God's promise (the coming of His Son to die for our Sin). The New Testament begins with the fufillment the prophecies and the completion of God's promise as His son Jesus comes and dies for our sins opening up the way to be saved from sin and brought back to the image of God. Jesus is the reality of the Tree of Life and by "eating Him" (by praying, reading God's word, and calling on the name of the Lord "O Lord Jesus!") we are gradually filled with the life and nature of God making us what we were suppose to be - God's kind (having the life and nature of God, but not the Godhead (not in God's stature as something to be worshipped). The New Testament ends with a foretelling of future events that will lead to the end of this age and the eventual removal of all sin and restoration of all creation and the marriage of God's people (His Bride) with God to create a mingling of God and man which is the city New Jerusalem. Some events mentioned in the last book of the Bible (Revelation) have already taken place and though we know not the time, the last days are upon us (but then again, to God a day is a thousand years).

john 3.16 for god so loved the world, he gave his begoten son, for who ever beleives in him shall not parrish, but have ever lasting life.

A lot.

Nothing;  you have to read it!

 

nothing. books can't speak, silly.