Is the Bible true?

No, I don't believe a word of it.

Do you believe the Qu'ran is fact or fiction? How about the Egyptian Book of the Dead? Or the Popul Vuh of the Maya?

Or any other of numerous 'religious' texts from around the world? They can't ALL be right, but they can easily ALL be wrong.

Critical exegesis reveals the Bible to be a pastiche of creation myths borrowed from the surrounding cultures (Egypt, Babylon).

Note the similarities between the flood myths of the Bible and the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh.

You may say that the other texts I mentioned are made-up nonsense and surely fiction. Those who wrote them and believe in them will say the same thing about the Bible.

Yes, the Bible is factual.  It as factual as much as mankind can tell the truth about faith.  The writings have been proven time after time.  Many other religions state the same facts as the Bible proving they are related in some way to the athority of the writings.  People who don't believe in the Bible will of course argue that it isn't factual and therefore aren't governed by it.  It's like arguing that God doesn't exist.  The belief depends if you want life after death or death after death

Yes, I believe the Bible is true. I believe the word of God and I believe that the bible is the written word of God (written by the prophets, inspired by God through his spirit).

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Some of it is true, some of it is allegorical fiction, and some of it is propaganda and/or outright fiction. 

I believe that the Torah (Old Testament) is the word of G-d.  The New Testament is written by man and therefore fallible. 

The Bible is a true (genuine) testimony of the religious journey of the Jewish people, with an additional true (genuine) account about Jesus and a record about (plus directives for) the early Christian church. The book is entirely Jewish, and 2 out of 66 books were written by a "gentile" (Luke) thereby emphasizing the shift towards an even more universal outlook upon the world. The Bible is of course also a book of faith - in that sense a search for eternal truth, although our own, inevitable human interpretations always make almost impossible any direct truth claim (e.g. the Bible may be entirely true in the spiritual realm of things yet we are always humans so our own, culture-drenched applications and interpretations of what we read in the Bible cannot be identified with "bible truth") - in other words, all thought about "truth" makes true people humble, and careful with their claims. Besides the historical and religious challenge of the truth-finding mission, the Bible also challenges us through its embedded philosophical, social / cultural, literary etc. accounts.

I believe the Bible to be true.

If you believe in history and the way historical events are dated, the you will find it difficult to believe in the Bible. However, if you believe that Science and all our knowledge is based on phenomena, that is on appearances, then you are at liberty to believe in the Bible by faith and then you stop considering the World of phenomena as an objective reality and you start to construct reality in accordance with the laws of the Bible. The mystical sentence attributed to Hermes Trismegistos "As above so below" is not a statement of fact,  it is the advice given to Mankind to  transform the "below" in accordance with the "above" by  "imitatio Dei".