16 Feb '13 13:47>
Originally posted by twhiteheadWell... it would be even more self contradictory than Bible 1.0 for a start...
Yes I am. But its not intended as criticism so much as me wanting to get things sorted out in my own mind. For example, the whole thread assumes the existence of something called 'the Bible'. Yet the Christian Bible is a collection of books. Anything you say about it is not really about the content of individual books, but about the collection as a whole. ...[text shortened]... te it off'? Would it still be 'a work of fiction'? What could we say about it as a whole?
I have to say that I am personally comfortable calling the whole thing a work of fiction...
Maybe an anthology of fiction.
The fact that it has the odd bit in it that might be factually true doesn't stop it from being
fiction.
Harry Potter setts of for Hogwarts from King's Cross station which is real.... Harry Potter is
still fiction though.
The fact that some places and historical events in the bible might have happened, that doesn't
make the stories within, or the bible as a whole, cease to be a work of fiction.
At least that's my view.