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Originally Posted by Izulde
The Old Testament is largely a historical record, sure, but the New Testament isn't a history in my opinion.
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On the contrary. While the time span covered is much shorter, the New Testament, in all four of the Gospels, clearly follows from the Christ's birth to his crucifixion and Resurrection. This is followed by the Acts, which detail the years immediately following, and then the Letters, which came later than that (although there is much argument as to the exact timing of the writing of the letters). And Revelations clearly deals with the end of all things, beyond which no story can go.
So there is certainly a chronological record being shared (and since most of it dealt with actual events-as related therein, and not the "predictions" of Revelations), it is still very much a historical record.