Well I meant my comment to be ridiculously inaccurate, totally off the mark and completely beside the point, to be honest.
The Bible is... well, I wouldn't say that it's entirely a work of fiction. I find the idea of miracles and whatnot a bit farfetched, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that it's all made up. there's a fair probability that most the the characters portrayed in the Bible did in fact walk the earth, but whether any of them were the son of an omnipotent entity capable of performing miracles? Unlikely. I powerful speaker, a mover of nations, certainly, but a divine being, not so likely.
As for whether there is in fact a God. I would argue that there's a high chance that there was a Creator (As far as I can see, life still cannot be "created", until the point in time that someone shows me created life, one has to assume that life started somewhere, and that somewhere, as it stands from my point of view, has to have been some creationist beginning. Hell, for all I know the Big Bang is correct, but it was just some really bored guy exploding our universe like a potato in a microwave. There's a funny image :P), but that he's long since buggered off, leaving us to our own devices. If there are any gods of the omnipotent benevolent/malevolent being strain, then I would be more likely to believe that they were created by the beliefs of humankind, rather than that they/he/she are/is our creator(s).
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