What makes a myth?

[ajaxfetish]

Word, myth, fable, perhaps it all points to the same thing. However, I'm pretty sure that most Christians wouldn't exactly like you if you called the Bible a myth. We speak of the creation myth, but why don't we address the entire Bible as being mythical?

The Bible is a bit big to generalize that way. It's got sections that are myth (unless you choose to believe they're real), sections that are history, sections that are poetry, sections that are manuals for religious ritual, sections that are morality fables, sections that are philosophy, sections that are advice literature, sections that are prophetic (you might call them myths set in the future), and sections that are action-adventure literature. That's why I wouldn't call the whole Bible mythical.

Ajax