According to your belief system, under what circumstances does making stuff up not count as lying?

When it's done honestly.

I don't think fiction authors are liars.

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Just like repeating a rumor, you are just following a lie. Unless the rumor happens to be true but that really never tends to happen...

Wow... the bible is a rumor!!

When what you make up is being used as a metaphor or if it is an obvious exaggeration such as "We must be going a million miles an hour!"

Are you talking about the 4 gospels, or the entire bible?

Kind of like when you hear that "god is love"?

Strange how such a loving god takes no issue with killing millions of innocent men, women, children, and babies...

It doesn't. A lie is a lie, know matter how great or small.

the question: "Am I fat?" should not under no circumstances be answered with "yes"

In the name of god, anything goes!