Any story that begins with a make-believe character creating the earth is a fiction.
Infinitely more believable than nothing created everything.
But back to your point, which parts, specifically in the old testament is fiction?
The God part for starters, but what does any of this have to do with the assassination of Charlie Kirk by the kid with the weird chin?
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The whole thing…even the God they write about is mashup of two different gods that predate monotheism in the region. The whole Moses bit is completely made up they were never in Egypt.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Do you have anything that is provably false?
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That Jesus was a real person who walked the earth is an established historical fact. There is plenty of documentation. Same as Siddhartha, Mohammed, Confucius, Socrates, Joseph Smith, L. Ron Hubbard, and so on. He’s not some made up figure like Zeus or Sun Wu Kong. The only question up for debate is whether he was truly the Son of God or a mere mortal.
Now can we move on?
There is no evidence of that, no Roman records of it… but plenty of other records for other Jewish revolutionaries.
You know we have a Religion & Spirituality forum?
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Not in the Old Testament he didn’t.
The Bible Is Fiction | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. The Bible Is Fiction | Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D.
The Bible, however, is fiction, because, overall, its authors meant it as presentation, not as science, or even as history, which is a form of science with its own scientific rules of evidence. Sometimes they accepted the truth of the stories they used, but sometimes, they did not — Job and Esther describe personalities who never lived, and the authors knew it. Some of it reports historical fact, of course: there was a King David, as there was a Babylonian invasion. There was also a prophet named Isaiah, but his prophecies were included in the Bible to give us lessons of morality not of history. The same is true of Genesis through Deuteronomy, Kings, Judges and all the other books, some of whose characters really lived and some of whom didn’t. It doesn’t matter. Fiction can be chock-full of characters who really lived, with a story line of things they really did – and still be fiction.
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^^ 
As a person of faith and someone who is very much against biblical literalism, I thoroughly enjoyed that article.
Even if every bit of the Bible were literally true, it would still be fiction because of the reason it was compiled, the reason we insist on reading it, and its presentational nature as a world unto itself with its own unique lessons to impart. If you want to know such things as the point of existence, the meaning of life, and the ways humankind has gone right and wrong, you cannot do a whole lot better than start with fiction: the fiction that is the Bible.
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12 posts were split to a new topic: Something came from nothing? Is God eternal?
I always think of it this way. The same people who say God isn’t real are usually the same ones who believe they can pick and choose their gender and run around dressed up as furries.
As opposed to the many priests that have destroyed the lives of an unfathomable number of children?
That’s a terrible wrong, and nobody denies it. But the crimes of some individuals don’t erase the bigger truth I’m pointing out that the same people mocking belief in God often embrace ideas even more irrational.
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“bigger truth” is a stretch lol. Who, where are these people? If not here it seems kind of deflated.
They’re everywhere, you don’t have to look far at all to see it.
There’s a lot of idiots out there and more than a few of them are atheists. There are religious people saying all kinds of bizarre and malignant things as well. That’s life, but I don’t see how it’s so important to bring it up, much less being worse than actual crimes.