What's so fictional about The Bible?

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I also liked Lesty's use of vowel heavy words: "geocentricism, ethnocentrism, misogyny, homophobia"

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
That is true even with religion.

That's not exactly true.

Originally posted by Shabazz916
these days because money is king.. but b4 that that wasnt true

Human nature hasn't changed in a very long time.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Human nature hasn't changed in a very long time.

take white ppl greed out the equation it would be totally different

Smh...

Originally posted by Shabazz916
take white ppl greed out the equation it would be totally different

Greed is not something divided alone racial lines. All races of humans have the same potential for greed.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Greed is not something divided alone racial lines. All races of humans have the same potential for greed.

Originally posted by Shabazz916
show me evidence pre slavery

Why Preslavery? Slavery is still going on in Africa. I hope you realize that it was black people who sold slaves to the British. And when the Brits outlawed slavery the king of the African kingdom of Ashanti was upset.

Over time, every race has been enslaved. My ancestors were enslaved by the Romans.

Originally posted by Lestov16
I have zero problem with the idea of metaphysics and the supernatural, and as stated in another thread, I wholeheartedly believe in a God.

The reason the bible is fiction is because it's [b]physical cosmology is not accurate in the slightest of what actually happened, and is rather geocentric.

The bible's fiction can be found right in the start of Genesis. It states God created the Earth before the stars, which obviously is not true because Earth (and all chemical elements) are stardust.

That, combined with the fact that much of the OT is devoted to Israel's violent military conquests, dogmatic discrimination of women and homosexuals, support of owning slaves, merciless Yahweh, ritual sacrifices, the ethnocentric view that Jews are "God's chosen people", amongst other things, put the bible deeply into the realm of obsolete mythology. The NT hilariously tried to retcon some of the unsavory bits of the OT, but it really doesn't help.

So yeah, geocentricism, ethnocentrism, misogyny, homophobia, etc. Is it any question why the bible is fiction? And again, not saying God doesn't exist, but it clearly isn't Yahweh/Allah/any of the Abrahamic deities. [/B]

You can even make an argument about fiction being the only kind of narration that humanity used back in the day.

i would have thought the whole fiction arguement about the bible would have been around beliefs and the facts that it has been historically censored by the vatican and was composed 40 years after the death of jesus

Originally posted by Genesis-Soldier
i would have thought the whole fiction arguement about the bible would have been around beliefs and the facts that it has been historically censored by the vatican and was composed 40 years after the death of jesus

The accounts of living witnesses existed prior to the gospels though.

I saw this question and put on my helmet before I entered to reply.
Whilst referencing historical events and persons - albeit unreliably - there is a lot of mythos and embellishment in it.
Thats fictional.
Just because a Bond novel takes place in the real world and references the time or history of said world doesn't make it factual. The mere inclusion of Bond and the events surrounding him makes it fiction.
Thats the basic answer I have for you. 🙂

That's too steep a hill for me to climb right now. Insofar as this thread goes, though, I cosign Neme and Shakya's comments so far.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
Why Preslavery? Slavery is still going on in Africa. I hope you realize that it was black people who sold slaves to the British. And when the Brits outlawed slavery the king of the African kingdom of Ashanti was upset.

Over time, every race has been enslaved. My ancestors were enslaved by the Romans.

Some people believe crazy things when it comes to racism, some say it is impossible for black people to be racist.