The Bible a novel Mark 16:7 "By sending them back to Galilee, Jesus is essentially restarting the mission. He is not abandoning the disciples to their failure; He is re-commissioning them. This implies that failure does not disqualify someone from being used by God; rather, grace restores and re-sends." --- I still can’t understand why the masses don’t see that the Bible is structured like a novel — because that’s what it is. At no point is it built as a historical account. Better still: it is constructed against historical narrative as we usually understand it. History seeks to establish facts; the novel seeks to transform its reader...