Any good Bible historian will tell you the Genesis creation story is not written to be taken as fact. It was just a good place to start a big story. It was probably borrowed from other similar creation tales of tha same time period.
The Bible is indisputably real, insofar as every book is real. It physically exists in the form of literature and it philosophically exists within the minds of those who read it. The debate is whether the story it outlines is fact or fiction. Here is some input on that debate from Answers.com contributors:Of course It is real!God told specific men in the Bible times what words to write and they wrote it. The Bible took thousands of years to be fully written, and in the Bible times it was in Greek or Hebrew and on a scroll.No
There are MANY, MANY, MANY stories in the Bible; the Bible itself is the story of mankind! In fact, just of Jesus alone, on of the Gospels had commented that if ALL the miracles that Jesus had done were recorded, the books would fill the entire world!
The wife of Joel or even the fact that Joel was married is not mentioned in the Bible.
in part due to the fact that, to represent anything that is a creation of Gods is a sin. Geometric art is not an attempt to recreate/represent the creation of God.
It doesn't matter whether you believe the Bible to be fact or a fable... It remains an important reference source in the study of literature.
Fiction. From Wikipedia: "The novel is presented as a novelization of a true story, but it is in fact entirely fiction."
Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction - 1997 The FBI Story was released on: USA: 2 June 2000
It's not based on fact-made up.
In the case of the bible, some people accept fiction as fact and even go so far as to unconstitutionally base laws on this fiction.
It is not a true story. It is not based on fact. It is made up, not real.
It is science fiction. Science fiction generally bases a fictional story about a debatable scientific point like time travel, aliens and other disputed ideas.
No it's a historical fact
Fiction is based on imagination and not necessarily fact.
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" is a short story written by James Thurber in 1939. It is a work of fiction and not based on a fact. The story follows the daydreams of the character Walter Mitty as he escapes the mundane reality of his life through vivid fantasies.
most nonfiction books have a bibliography (a list of sources of theinformation) and if a book is based on fact, they usually say in the front or back. if this doesn't tell you, pick a significant name out of the book and search it on the internet. if you get results thatare fact and follow a similar plot to your book, it is probably fact hope this helps! :~)
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