What if Judas didn't do it?

[John 6IX Breezy]

The question is do you go on pretending when you have better ways to tell whether it is true or not then “seems”?

I'm not sure you can escape narrative so easily. It is engrained into your perception of reality. It is how your brain creates coherence out of happenings in the world. The best you can do is exchange one narrative for another. Perhaps with more accurate details, but not necessarily a truer story.

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

Hmm I think that's a good question. There are nonfiction narratives (like personal accounts) vs fictional narratives (like Harry Potter). So, perhaps, instead of asking if the Bible is "truer" it is more useful to first ask which kind of account it is. I side with the traditional interpretation, that these are by and large intended to communicate personal accounts.