What if Judas didn't do it?

[Anomalocaris]

These are not strange concepts to anyone in the cognitive sciences. Narrative is a big topic of study in the field, from neuroscience to anthropology.

I just googled the term verisimilitude and found a Wikipedia entry for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verisimilitude

No one denies things can seem like the truth or close to the truth when it is neither the truth or nor closer to the truth than an infinite number of  other propositions that were not accorded the same consideration.     The question is do you go on pretending when you have better ways to tell whether it is true or not then “seems”?


In other words, in what precise way is the Bible intrinsically truer than any extremely loosely “historic” works of self-admitted fiction?

That lots of people believe it is a result of historic accident.    It in no way add truth value to the Bible itself.   At most one might argue those who built upon this foundation of sand may have erected some facade containing parts worth preserving.   That does not turn the foundation itself from sand to stone.    Rather then pretending such facade is somehow not on sand, it seems if the facade is worth preserving, it is worth the effort to shift it on to a truly solid foundation that doesn’t require willful blindness to endure..