The Bible is a FICTIONAL book. Why does evry1 insist evrything in this book is fact?

Answer 1

Yeah bible is a joke

Answer 2

Everything in the bible is not fiction. There's no proof of that, inasmuch as there's no proof to the contrary. Now, I am not saying that every word of the bible should be taken literally. Not by any means. But I certainly don't beleive it is all fiction. I believe that many of the stories are parables and metaphors with lessons on right and wrong, I even dare to believe that not all of the bible was misinterpreted and mistranslated and some of the events are documented fairly factually, but probably not much of it.

Answer 3

Well actually the Old Testament of a history of the Jewish peoples, their geneology and Mosaic law. Not fiction. The New Testement is a combination of many writers who also are telling the stories of the past. Some of it is prophecy..stories of dreams and or visions they saw themselves or heard by hearsay...These are the ones most debated. Many things in the Bible are hard to decipher whether they are to be taken literally or have a deeper, higher spiritual meaning. And also, not everyone insists the book is a fact.

Answer 4

The Smithsonian uses it as a reference book to find archealogical sites.

The Bible said that Pilate was tetriarch of Judea. No one believed it because there were no records of Pilate in Rome. Then they found the stone in Caesarea that confirmed it.

No records of a King David. They just unearthed a stone marker dedicated to him.

The BIble spoke of a people that dwelt within the rocks. No one beleived it until they discovered Petra.

Scholars have said that there wasn’t a Pool of Siloam and that John was using a religious conceit’ to illustrate a point. Workers repairing a sewage-pipe break uncovered the Pool of Siloam in Old Jerusalem.

Modern archaeology has made numerous discoveries which confirm events recorded in The Bible, including bricks without straw at Pithon. Lower levels had good quality straw, middle levels had less (including much which was torn up by the roots, as someone in a rush to meet a quota would be inclined to do), and the top levels had no straw at all.

Bible critics had long sneered at references in the Bible to a people called the Hittites and that the Hittites were simply one of the many mythical peoples made up by Bible writers. Toward the end of the 19th century, Hittite monuments were uncovered at Carchemish on the Euphrates River in Syria, proving the Bible right. Later, in 1906, excavations at Boghazkoy in Turkey and uncovered thousands of Hittite documents, revealing a wealth of information about Hittite history and culture.

Critics claimed that the Babylonian captivity did not take place. The Bible gives specific details about the captivity of Judah by the armies of Babylon early in the 6th century B.C. Scholars have said it’s all just another Jewish myth. However, between 1935 and 1938, important discoveries were made 30 miles southwest of Jerusalem at a site thought to be ancient Lachish. Lachish was one of the cities recorded in the Bible as being besieged by the king of Babylon at the same time as the siege of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 34:7). Twenty-one pottery fragments inscribed in the ancient Hebrew script were unearthed in the latest pre-exilic levels of the site. Called the Lachish Ostraca, they were written during the very time of the Babylonian siege.

Answer 5

Although this debate may not be evident from publications
readily found in popular bookstores1, when one examines
this issue closely, one will find a tremendous volume of
literature that demonstrates, logically and intelligently,
time and again that Jesus Christ is a mythological
character along the same lines as the Greek, Roman,
Egyptian, Sumerian, Phoenician, Indian or other godmen,
who are all presently accepted as myths rather than
historical figures

Answer 6

I am sure that you expect to get flamed. The bible is supposed to be the word of GOD but it is more man's interpretation of it. For all those who vehemently disagree - the original bible was written in a language that no longer exists and mistakes are made in translating. It was added to many times using a (now) dead language (Latin) which also has been mistranslated. So what we now have are many versions that don't always agree with each other - and we are to consider these facts? there are many lessons to be learned from the bible but calling it the absolute truth is not one of them.

Answer 7

If the bible is fictional, then why are most of the things in the bible also found in other ancient manuscripts, most that have nothing to do with religion or spirituality? You need to do some serious history research before you make such ludicrous claims.

Answer 8

Because it has stood the test of TIME!!

It's been on the best sellers list for 5000 years

It's the most widely read book PERIOD

The haters of the bible have been trying to destroy it since it was written.

That you should tell you something..those who love God and those who work for satan..and they don't have a clue to their employer.

Have you noticed why some just go crazy trying to destroy everything about God, Jesus, the bible..don't they seem DRIVEN!!!..there's a clue

There are many things that bother me...but I don't give them much thought...but they can't

Answer 9

Russell's Teapot Effect - they're taught from an early age that the Bible is the Word of God, and no logical argument in the world will un-convince them of this. The Bible is, most definitely, not perfectly accurate. But there's nothing that can be done about it, really.

Answer 10

If it were fictional, why are archeologists finding artifacts validating the Biblical writings? why aren't Turkish officials allowing archeoligists on Mount Ararat with the possible location of the ark?

If the Bible is true, would be willing to take the risk of being accountable to the One True God?

Answer 11

Sad, isn't it. I got kicked out of the bookstore for moving the Bible to the fiction section.