Share 'The Bible - Fiction or Fact?'

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…