The Bible - Fiction or Fact?

[Tony Walker]

I'm trying to start a serious discussion here, so please don't splatter me with favorite quotes from your Bibles.

Leaving aside the various claims to authorship, should the Bible be treated as a collection of folk myths, a handy pocket guide to getting along with each other, a genealogical history of the Israelites, or should it be recognized as the actual, written down in his own hand, word of God?

Just to set the record straight, I tend to go with the first explanation, with a few useful tips to be taken from the second.

[Tony Walker]

Bingo! First example of Yoda-speak I've seen for a long time, as evidenced when Rich said "Few and far between are the people ..."

May the farce be with you.

On a more serious (!) note, would be interested in seeing Rich complete his recovery manual for former fundamentalists. I happen to believe that most of them are beyond help, but at least it's a step in the right direction. I wonder if the book will have a chapter on what to do with the poisonous snakes when recovery is complete. Can't have the former snake shufflers just dumping them out in the countryside, can we?