Revenant Chronicles

[Kuraudo Sutoraifu]

What? How do you know if DP understood you or not? lol he hasn't posted in reply to your post dude

*facepalm*

I said that DP understood me clearly because it was apparent in his reply, here:

*facepalm*  Did you not catch the part where I mad-libbed your quote?  I was mocking you, not actually making a point.

see this is where you're wrong, I will direct you to any of the well known, renowned sci fi authors and their universes, who not only do not need to rely on pseudo-historical facts to establish their works of fiction, but do better "styllistically". sci fi universes which, I repeat, did not need to be re-written, re-imagined, and edited by thousands of individuals throughout the years

You missed the point.  You're telling me that other people have written stories stylistically better than the Bible.  Thanks for agreeing with me.  Perhaps you thought when I said the Bible sounded like a history textbook, you thought I was complimenting the book.  How would you compare any of those scifi authors to a school textbook?  Would you say that they are nothing stylistically comparable?  If yes, then understand that is what I'm saying about the Bible being stylistically non-comparable from standard fairy tales.

It's a rather important issue, because just because something is written as a historical textbook doesn't mean it's history (and alot of it is, in fact, not written AT ALL like a historical textbook, I have no idea where you got this from, but I will list examples to disprove it if you want, from any of the 2,000 editions of the bible), and you seem to be confusing the two

The first half of Daniel, I & II Chronicles, I & II Kings, Leviticus, Numbers, Dueteronomy, Ezra, Nehemiah and Judges to name a few.  Don't forget that I said it was written as letters as well which would include Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, the majority of Micah, portions of Isaiah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Malachi, Zechariah, Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, I & II Thessalonians, James, I, II, and III John, I and II Peter, Jude, Hebrews, I and II Timothy, Titus, Philemon, and a small portion of Revelation.

And remember, I didn't say the entirety of the Bible was written as history and letters.  I left room for other types literature.

[Archael]

*facepalm* Did you not catch the part where I mad-libbed your quote? I was mocking you, not actually making a point.

no I didn't, but nice joke I guess

You're telling me that other people have written stories stylistically better than the Bible. Thanks for agreeing with me. Perhaps you thought when I said the Bible sounded like a history textbook, you thought I was complimenting the book.

It sounded like you were referring to the bible as a historical book

I am glad to see that is not the case

How would you compare any of those scifi authors to a school textbook? Would you say that they are nothing stylistically comparable? If yes, then understand that is what I'm saying about the Bible being stylistically non-comparable from standard fairy tales.

School text books aim to teach and educate, and usually use very direct language to try and teach procedures, facts, and historical evidence

The bible is in the same category as fairy tales and the sci-fi authors content-wise

Styllistically speaking I guess some of the things in the bible are well-written, so you could probably move the bible 1 spot forward in my writing scale, so that it's before the internet-speech but after modern day authors

And remember, I didn't say the entirety of the Bible was written as history and letters. I left room for other types literature.

like fiction

[Redux]

like fiction

Or Poetry. Just saying that all writers are biased in some way, fiction  or otherwise. As such no source is true non-fiction. facts can and are slanted, data can be shaded to a certain degree, numbers rounded. That being siad the bible is of very dubius historical value, but could contain some truth, like Maccabees.  I can't believe i am even slightly defending such a two-faced biased, over interpreted piece of history that should have stayed dead. I will not be caught white knighting a text i disagree with.

[Kuraudo Sutoraifu]

no I didn't, but nice joke I guess

I really shouldn't have made the joke.  I try to leave making fun of someone to the Spam section.  It's counter-production anyway, so I apologize.

It sounded like you were referring to the bible as a historical book

I am glad to see that is not the case

I was trying to remain as unbiased as I could.  I do believe the Bible to be true, but I was trying my best to leave that out because it wasn't what we were discussing.[/quote]