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In your OP, you have completely glossed over the moral lessons that even fiction is meant to impute to a reader.
Quite simply, fiction is written to get a point across. That is the purpose of narrative writing. Whether it is Genesis or The Da Vinci Code doesn't matter -- the point is that the author is sending a clear statement to his reader through his writing. TEs do not see Genesis as historical, but they correctly recognize the moral lessons set up in the book's opening chapters: that there is one God who created the universe from nothing, that man sinned, that moral evil is created and is not eternal, etc.
Likewise, rather than dismiss books like The Da Vinci Code simply because they are "fiction", we should look at the moral lessons this book is trying to introduce to its audience. And in narrative, the potential for doubt can more dangerous than in other modes of writing, because authors like Dan Brown will place all their unintellectual feces in the mouth of a respected character; in Brown's case, that character is Teabing the historian.
Quite simply, fiction is written to get a point across. That is the purpose of narrative writing. Whether it is Genesis or The Da Vinci Code doesn't matter -- the point is that the author is sending a clear statement to his reader through his writing. TEs do not see Genesis as historical, but they correctly recognize the moral lessons set up in the book's opening chapters: that there is one God who created the universe from nothing, that man sinned, that moral evil is created and is not eternal, etc.
Likewise, rather than dismiss books like The Da Vinci Code simply because they are "fiction", we should look at the moral lessons this book is trying to introduce to its audience. And in narrative, the potential for doubt can more dangerous than in other modes of writing, because authors like Dan Brown will place all their unintellectual feces in the mouth of a respected character; in Brown's case, that character is Teabing the historian.
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