2007-04-23 20:21:27 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ausblue.......It worries me because I have childfren and I came about the world they will grow up in.
2007-04-23 20:44:00 · update #1
Sorry...that's "care about the world"
2007-04-23 20:44:40 · update #2
Neither.
Cheers :-)
2007-04-23 20:31:40 · answer #1 · answered by chekeir 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Why would you call it fiction? The people who wrote it never meant it to be taken as fiction. In your brain there are 100 billion neurons. Each one of those neurons(remember, there's 100 billion of them) is connected to 1000 other neurons. That comes out to 100 trillion connections in your brain. These connections send electronic signals(and you can measure the electricity) from one place to another. If part of the brain is damaged and you lose some function that is controlled by that part of the brain, the brain can actually re-wire itself and let other neurons in the undamaged part of the brain take over so that you can get back that function. That's only the connections in the brain, not the rest of the body.
Our bodies also have tons of information in the DNA. You have enough information in your DNA to fill encyclopedia sized books stacked from here to the moon and back 500 times. Evolutionist and atheists say all that came about by random chance luck. Would it not be more appropriate to refer to evolution and atheism as "fiction or fantasy".
Have you never heard the story where the princess kisses the frog and the frog becomes a handsome prince. They call that a fairytale. But add a couple of billion years and a lot of random chance(read......luck) to the story and that fairytale becomes a scientific fact(AKA...evolution). The story is the same. The frog is still becoming a prince. It just takes a little longer. Why is it still not a fairytale. Why does it go from a fairytale to a scientific fact just because you add a few billion years and some random chance luck?
2007-04-24 04:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by upsman 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I would say fiction because it seems to be a collection of accounts of people and the time. I think the bible is partly a bunch of fables or over exagurated stories, but since it is one of the first books, or a collection of accounts that it should be fiction.
2007-04-24 03:35:08 · answer #3 · answered by Stephanie S 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Torah is best seen as a people's history of themselves and how they saw (at the time of writing) their place in the universe and the social world around them. Much of it is in keeping with the literary practices of the time, so we really need to understand that context before we impose our definitions on it. Like the fact that 'fiction' wasn't on the radar, attributed authorship was normal, and poetry included doubled lines.
The Christian canon was written by people who were inventing a new religion. It's them trying to communicate with their followers. The core of it was quickly written to give people something to hold onto. So think of it as a combination of propaganda (prosletysing is their preferred term), myth creation, and a user's manual.
2007-04-24 06:19:35 · answer #4 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Fantasy. Definitely fantasy.
Fiction usually deals with either the real world, or real characters. The bible does neither.
2007-04-24 07:47:54 · answer #5 · answered by Yoda Green 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
...Naah, the Bible is in a class by itself. It is the only authority for life and practice. How about the faith and history section?
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...Some stocking suggestions for your "fiction" and "fantasy" works:
...Living History, by Hillary Clinton
...My Life, by Bill Clinton
...An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It by Al Gore
...Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit, by Al Gore
2007-04-24 03:53:08 · answer #6 · answered by carson123 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
More properly under Mythology, thats where you would find Greek or Roman religious practices.
Only currently popular practicing religions get their own section in Religion in its own little section that doesn't fit with anything else.
Fantasy is a subcategory of Fiction, and the Bible could also be filed there.
confusing , isn't it?
2007-04-24 03:30:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Yes
2007-04-24 03:38:46 · answer #8 · answered by Monita C 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes. A selection of bronze age middle eastern goat herders tales and legends.
2007-04-24 05:08:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
That depends on what you believe. If people feel it's based on real events. let them. If you feel it isn't then call it what you may. I just think everyone needs to mind their own business when it comes to religion. And stop trying to ridicule and regulate each other, no matter what people believe.
2007-04-24 03:41:00 · answer #10 · answered by daddys lil gurl 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Should you be referred to as a son of Satan or a fetus who has no right to live?
The Bible is law.God gave it to keep us from Hell & a rotton life on this earth,but......OOPS!It must be too late!Look how many are ignoring the warnings & then crying,or shifting the blame.
You have no faith & therefore no hope.Please come to the truth of the Lord.
2007-04-24 03:28:48 · answer #11 · answered by Frogmama2007 3 · 3⤊ 4⤋