that would depend on the person reading it...

their prophecies and predictions are all subjective, but for some people the bible can help them understand certain aspects to life that other options like the occult fail at, including the Gd they choose to worship and whether to accept His Son or not.

it's not actually fiction, it's a gathered group of letters, observations and personal experiences that people had with their god, his chosen people and his son, and what they learned from those lessons, no one seems to deny that Jesus was some sort of teacher, is it fake for students to take their teachers information and spread it?

fiction would be a few people sitting around saying, "hey let's write this"; sort of like the weekly world news or are you saying a person's journal or blog is fiction, that any teacher who's ever inspired a person to write based on those lessons are fake?

...anyone with a brain should know it's a book, a person who believes it will glean more out of it than one who does not believe in it, but when you start saying it's fake, that's when you're saying a person's belief is fake, and no one...human has that right, even the bible warns against assuming such an ego, leaving the judging to Gd.

on topic, i don't see how palestine could be considered anything on a worldly scale, just because they're enacting some funky voting options, does not mean that they're the anti christ...if revelations is indeed prophecy and not just an author's way of conveying the political system and it's dangers for that time.

i still favor rome, it has done more to disuade, mislead and destroy the root of christianity, including it's judaic roots than any enemy of Israel, i'm sure it has more wealth and power than any one in palestine and hold the world in sway with the spiritual leadership of the pope, rather than Gd. Lord help us if they vote a devout pope follower to a position of political power!

america was a front runner for awhile, but if we keep putting president's like bush in power...we'll have nothing to worry about, it's the clever, charismatic leaders that frighten me.