Agreed, however, faith is not intrinsic solely of Christians. Non-Christians also have faith, and it tells them the Bible is fiction.

I also agree that the Bible is an enormously valuable historical reference. And I also believe that novels by authors such as Tom Clancey may be valuable historical references 2000 years from now. Those novels depict world events that are fairly accurate or plausible, are loaded with references of actual people, and places. Yet, it's all complete fiction.

"Simply having a lack of physical evidence is rarely enough to prove an alleged historical account is fiction."

You may think so, but it simply wouldn't be true. In reality the lack is usually enough to prove fiction. It's what our court system is based on; physical evidence or credible eye-witness accounts. Without one of those it's just legend or fiction.

Which brings us right back to each person's faith; faith that it's fact, or faith that it's a work of fiction.