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 nostr:npub1fxmqftqvyw4ndxghsax5zgtquvm6cujym5urwqpu7an96km3nyns07guxz That's right. The four canonical gospels are a case in point: written a generation or even two generations after Jesus, though many believers take them to be eyewitness reports of what he did and said. And so many accounts — the creation narratives in the book of Genesis as a case in point — are interpreted as if someone saw and recorded actual historical events, when what's being written is mythology.