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Originally Posted by manifold Is the Bible fact or fiction? | yes
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Rep Power: 205 | | | I agree, it's both.
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Originally Posted by Ravi I agree, it's both. | Then you should vote fiction. | 
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Rep Power: 0 | | btw: It's impossible for any work of literature to be both fact AND fiction. If any part is fiction, it is by definition, fiction. All Quiet on the Western Front contained a lot of facts about WWI, but it is still a work of fiction.  | 
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Originally Posted by manifold Then you should vote fiction. | Why?
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Rep Power: 25 | | | it is man's interpretation of God's word... it is impossible to know how much is based on fact and how much is based on man's idea of those facts.
It's like an unauthorized autobiography of sorts. Most is based on accurate retelling of the history but some might be embellished for the purpose of "selling" the story.
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Originally Posted by manifold btw: It's impossible for any work of literature to be both fact AND fiction. If any part is fiction, it is by definition, fiction. All Quiet on the Western Front contained a lot of facts about WWI, but it is still a work of fiction.  | Or Asimov's Opus series. Many scientific facts in them, but scattered with a lot of fictional works.
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Originally Posted by manifold btw: It's impossible for any work of literature to be both fact AND fiction. If any part is fiction, it is by definition, fiction. All Quiet on the Western Front contained a lot of facts about WWI, but it is still a work of fiction.  | No, that would be historical fiction, or something. No work of non-fiction is ever totally fact, btw. 
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Originally Posted by Ravi No, that would be historical fiction, or something. No work of non-fiction is ever totally fact, btw.  |
Fair enough. I guess you'll just need to break out of your black & white comfort zone and pick which one you think the Bible is more of. Or abstain, it's up to you.  | 
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Rep Power: 205 | | mmm, but you didn't ask more. For someone that chooses his words so carefully... 
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Originally Posted by manifold Is the Bible fact or fiction? | Allegory mixed with some historical fact.
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Originally Posted by jillian Allegory mixed with some historical fact. | I still have yet to see any fact from it, not one bit. If they could at least come up with more fact than 'Rome existed' it would be nice.
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