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Originally Posted by adysav
I don't read fiction.
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This is ultimately the point. If you believe it is fiction that's, of course, perfectly fine. But, that means - and especially since you "don't read fiction" - you have no claim to any knowledge whatsoever about it. I don't go around telling people what the The Iliad means and what parts are historically accurate and what parts are less than literally true (after all, Homer was essentially the bible of Greek civilization). Why? Because I've never actually read the Iliad and even if I had, I didn't read it with any sort of understanding that a person who is reading it for other purposes might.
Similarly, being told one understanding does not mean that I now have THE understanding of it. In fact, as is the case with the bible, maybe there are many other, and some nearly completely opposite understandings. For example, I don't believe the bible is fiction, however I do believe that there were no such people as Adam and Eve, I don't believe the world was created in 7 days, I don't believe in Noah and the Ark, etc etc etc.
I have nothing wrong with people believing whatever they chose to believe. But to presuppose that you have an understanding of that which you admittedly don't believe in and pay little attention to, frankly, makes no sense.
Incidentally, there are those who would argue that Jesus may not have actually "walked on water" as well. And, personally, I don't really care if he physically walked on water or not, beyond an academic interest. Why? Because whether he physically walked on water or not has little, if anything at all, to do with the purpose and message of his life and the bible.