Is Christianity Fact or Fiction

I like to provoke thought that is why I am asking this question Is Christianity Fact or Fiction.
The main reason that we would say that it is fact is when we read the bible it tells of the historical side to Judaism and Christianity, when we read the new testament which teaches that Jesus Christ the son of God came and died on the cross for our sins. Is this a good enough reason to believe? We are told that Adam and Eve were confronted by Satan in the garden of Eden and they ate from the forbidden tree in the garden and therefore sin entered the world, after all we see a very fallen world around us today.
On the other hand The main reason that we would say fiction is could the bible be just a book that someone has written to get us to conform and to discipline our lives. Maybe there is no God or Jesus, no Heaven or Hell.
I would like to hear what folks have to say on the subject, I have a belief if anyone wishes to guess which belief I have feel free to say.

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Reasonable and rational people recognise any religion and its scriptures as mythopoetic.

Taking them literally is not even the way of understanding them that is of the past. Read those such as Karen Armstrong to see the truth of this. The idea of some that taking them literally has always been the norm up until our modern times is an unfounded assertion, born of ignorance. It is literalism that is the modernism, born of the Protestant Reformation, the printing press and mass literacy - all of which has turned the Living Word into the dead letter of the Law.

In this sense Christianity can become "fact" - as any other religion can become fact.

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@SW-User How good is your Quantum Physics?

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@SW-User About as good as my understanding of a few popular science books I have read.

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@SW-User So superficial. Mine is almost non existent, yet it guides our physical world.

I cannot comprehend God, yet am aware of his goodness, mercy and graciousness.

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@SW-User Yes, Grace guides us. We need not relate it to any particular revelation.

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@SW-User Yes indeed, pure grace, the efficacy of Christ dying on the Cross.

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@SW-User I'm not getting into an argument.

As I said, We need not relate it to any particular revelation.

That is the end of it. I have had enough of "one wayers".

Thanks

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@SW-User Yes, I agree. I rarely share my faith. This sort of forum is not for me. I’ll stick to my poetry, painting and love of music and the countryside.

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@SW-User Enjoy.

All the best