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>Isn't the whole bible a collection of fictional stories / articles?

It isn't, according to my Catholic upbringing. It's the word of God, which he dictated through the people who originally wrote it. There are supposedly 1.345 billion Catholics. So, I think there are many people who care.

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The Catholic Church declaring that a collection of fictional stories are the word of god and 1.345 billion people believing that does not make the collection of stories not fictional. You're appealing to authority and the populace.

I'd rather appeal to, let's say, popularity. So, because a lot of people take it seriously, to a degree, it's important to look at it how valid it is really, instead of just dismissing it all as fake, or forgery.

Truth is so, and I learned that, funny enough, during Catholic religion calsses in Bavaria of all places, that the bible as we know it was in fact not written by contemporary authors but much later by different authors. And multiple ones at that.

I was so surprised after learning all this (outside of chruch of course). That there are multiple authors, the compilations came later, and how it was translated multiple times later, and what version I had at home. Talk about the One Book!

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