The Importance of Fiction

[brownjenkins]

Archeology and history weave in a good bit of fiction in an attempt to connect the dots, and they've never had any problem admitting it, unlike their theological brethren. Those sciences are about discovery and reinvention on a regular basis.

Theology's bread and butter, from the Eddas to the Vedas to the Old Testament, is all about *truth* over fiction. Find a handful of information that a story may have a nugget of actual history within it, and it somehow validates the whole bananna, from nut to rind.

The best you can do is single out a few parts of the biblical texts that may not be fiction.