2007-03-04 06:58:27 · 23 answers · asked by Jason Bourne 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible is a wonderful anthology of the writings of crazed prophets, and of magical stories when the world of was young, and of accounts of the tantrums of a god that terrified the Hebrew folk -- and yes it sells well.
It also includes the life and times of Jesus, and how he came to life after being dead three days, and got up and started walking around like nothing ever happened.
Buy the Bible, but don't study it or you will be in danger of becoming an atheist.
Church people all have Bibles, but they avoid becoming atheists by not reading much of it.
2007-03-04 07:10:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The Bible is not usually characterized as "fiction," but, yes, it is the most-widely distributed book of all time. The number that have been "sold" is open to debate. Likewise, it would be interesting to see how the stats would breakdown for the various "versions" of the Bible.
The best-selling books (at least 10 million copies sold) of all time that are widely-considered to be "fiction" are:
#1: Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell (1936) ~28 million
#2: Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (2002) ~25 million
#3: Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann (1966) ~20 million
Other "top sellers" (at least 10 million copies) are:
* Animal Farm - George Orwell (1945)
* The Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller (1992)
* The Carpetbaggers - Harold Robbins (1961)
* Catch-22 - Joseph Heller (1961)
* Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (1951)
* The Celestine Prophecy - James Redfield (1993)
* The Exorcist - William Blatty (1971)
* The Godfather - Mario Puzo (1969)
* God's Little Acre - Erskine Caldwell (1933)
* Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
* Jaws - Peter Benchley (1974)
* Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach (1970)
* To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (1960)
* 1984 - George Orwell (1949)
* Peyton Place - Grace Metalious (1956)
* Shogun - James Clavell (1975)
* The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough (1977)
Agatha Christie sold more than 2 billion of all of her titles. Compare with Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, who has sold about 300 million of her series.
2007-03-04 07:21:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jabari S 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I see Harry Potter mentioned above. That links perfectly to what will happen in the future.
Okay firstly global warming will mean that our climate goes crazy, we'll end up in an ice age or soming like that. Pratically everyone will die but a few people will surive and will start to re populate the human race.
The only thing is that everything got destroyed by the ice age or soming and unfortuanaly they had to burn the bible to stay warm (like in the day after tomorrow)
Anywho a few hundred years later human cililzation is starting to recover and they find this book... It's Harry Potter.
These people will read the book and take it's fiction for fact... and hey presto we've got our selves a new religion.
Harry Potter will rule the world for a few thousand years until science has caught up and proved it wrong.
2007-03-04 07:10:21 · answer #3 · answered by Pete 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. At extra advantageous than 6 billion copies, the Bible is the bestselling e book of all situations, era. there are various genres interior the Bible, which comprise some fiction, including parables. Cheers, Bruce
2016-10-02 09:15:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything in the Bible is true.Most science was discovered by reading it in the Bible. Get the facts- most of the greatest scientists were Christians: Johann Kepler, Isaac Newton, Matthew Maury, etc., etc.
2007-03-04 07:08:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Best selling or most widely distributed? Aren't most bibles stolen out of hotels after the holier than thou ones are finished with the _______ (fill in the blank)?....
2007-03-04 07:08:07 · answer #6 · answered by conx-the-dots 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
not fiction, but the best book sold ever. no other faith have sold more than the bible. think about it. it's powerful, and full of truth, even though gentiles denies it because they are too "worldly" smart to understand "spiritual" things.
2007-03-04 07:04:58 · answer #7 · answered by C-Man 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I like the way you worded your question. It is not the Bible that is fiction, it is the fictitious interpretation that is put on it by man. The Bible is the word of God, the interpretations are the work of man.
2007-03-04 07:28:23 · answer #8 · answered by The Hiker 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, according to the History Channel.
2007-03-04 07:03:12 · answer #9 · answered by MoPleasure4U 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no. the bible is not fiction. how could any book last over thousands of years uncorrupted and unchanged, if there were not some sort of divinity about it. God inspired the bible. it is the best and most accurate written account of history in the entire world.
2007-03-04 07:03:17 · answer #10 · answered by Rachel 2 · 1⤊ 4⤋