Any story that begins with a make-believe character creating the earth is a fiction.

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[image] qbert: That Jesus was a real person who walked the earth is an established historical fact. 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 evi…

[image] RandomName: Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Ph.D. ^^ :laughing:

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 a…

https://luciaferro.medium.com/is-jesus-a-fictional-character-2eba8768640a

[image] RandomName: Any story that begins with a make-believe character creating the earth is a fiction. 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. [i…

[image] comfy123: 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 c…

[image] RandomName: 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 of…

“bigger truth” is a stretch lol. Who, where are these people? If not here it seems kind of deflated.

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