2007-03-27 14:40:45 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some fiction... Well, rather a lot, really... Yeah, most... Well, OK, the whole shebang. (Now look what you've done, *everyone*'ll wanna convert to Atheism.)
2007-03-27 14:48:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, lets see. Are we as adults really going to believe that the red sea parted to let a bunch of people stroll through it, or that a burning bush spoke to some guy, and it was the word of god? Or that the whole universe was created in 7 days, or that the entire human race is descended from two people???? Absolutly not. Those just are not rational, logical things that could have happened. There are a ton more, by the way...I could keep going....water into wine, rising from the dead, ummmm....oh, virgin birth, the list is really a mile long. The fact is, the bible is not a rational man's book. It just doesn't make much sense.
2007-03-27 14:57:50 · answer #2 · answered by brandi91082 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All the historical narratives are actually true. The parables and metaphors are-parables and metaphors. Creation, flood, parting the Red Sea, Jonah swallowed by a great fish, is all true. There is no fiction in the Bible.
2007-03-27 14:48:07 · answer #3 · answered by John S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No fiction. Only the cold facts, such as Peter was impulsive, Goliath was arrogant, Samson was over-confident, David was faithful but sex-obsessed. Likewise, we have accurate descriptions both of God and what He expects of us. It is the only book that is really reliable. Every other has internal contradictions that prove their human origins. Only the Bible somehow escapes this common failing of anything else humans get their hands on.
2007-03-27 14:47:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Job was intended to be fiction, and the Song of Solomon was intended to be an expression, not a true story.
The rest is factual and can be demonstrated as such.
2007-03-27 14:57:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For starters, please clarify.
Which Bible?
The Tibetan book of the Dead?
The Upanishads?
The Gitas?
The Holy Qu'ran?
The Book of Mormon?
Dianetics?
Science and Health?
The Egyptian Book of the Dead?
The Bhagavad Gita?
Oh, wait, do you mean just the Hebrew Torah with the addition of the New Testament as agreed almost 400 years after Jesus and the apostles lived?
Why?
2007-03-27 14:49:24 · answer #6 · answered by fra59e 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no one can say for sure how much of it is fiction. there is proof that some of it is fact, but the majority of it is unsubstantiated in reality. the fact that much of it can never be found to be fact or fiction bodes well for the Christians who do not want their belief system put to the test, because it WOULD FAIL.
2007-03-27 14:46:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The other way around. They're mostly fictional, but some of them are based on actual events.
2007-03-27 14:44:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Not all of the bible is narrative. Some parts are psalms and prayers and law.
The parts of the bible that are historical narrative are factual. They were recorded by eyewitnesses.
God bless you.
2007-03-27 14:45:06 · answer #9 · answered by Veritas 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I wouldnt necessarily say they were fictional. I would call them metaphyical meaning stories, not literal meaning stories.
2007-03-27 14:46:03 · answer #10 · answered by ladya 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋