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View Poll Results: Is the Holy Bible fact or fiction?
Fact 13 44.83%
Fiction 16 55.17%
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Is the Bible fact or fiction?
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I agree, it's both.
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I agree, it's both.
Then you should vote fiction.
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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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Then you should vote fiction.
Why?
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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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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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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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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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mmm, but you didn't ask more. For someone that chooses his words so carefully...
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Is the Bible fact or fiction?
Allegory mixed with some historical fact.
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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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