Christians of R&S, is Dracula a true story?

Dracula sheds your blood so he can live even though he is dead and you are alive

Jesus shed His blood so you could live even though you are dead and He is alive

There seems to have been one unsavoury character in Transylvania who had legends arise in his wake. Then in 1897 Bram Stoker let his imagination run riot after walking around the spooky gothic remains high on a hill overlooking Whitby in England, and decided to write a novel about Count Dracula and vampires.

Because he wrote a novel, nobody in their right mind would take the novel to be the accurate, historic account of that man who lived in Transylvania. The novel seems to have originated in Greece in the 2nd century BC, but much of the Bible's Old Testament was earlier than that. It was not until the late 13th century that the European novel became popular whereas all of the New Testament books had been written in the 1st century.. The Dracula novel was never written as historic truth, but simply took a few vague events in Transylvania as an excuse for inventing a ripping yarn. We all know that vampires do not exist, not because it can be proven that they don't exist, but because the people who wrote about them just wanted to make money out of selling scary stories that they had invented for entertainment purposes. Those who wrote the Bible, on the other hand, never made any money out of it, and many were hated by their peers and suffered dreadfully for writing the truth that the public did not want to know about.

The novel Dracula appears in history as a single volume, fully written, in one moment in time. The Bible is a collection of over 60 documents written across an 1800 year period. It exist in "incomplete forms", such as the Torah (or Old Testament) that was around for over 500 years before the New Testament books were authored.

While the novel Dracula claims to be a collection of letters and journals by different authors, none of those letters or journals are known to exist outside of the novel. While with the Bible we have thousands of manuscripts to support the existence of the various texts outside of their eventual conclusion in the Bible. There are currently over 2,300 known copies of the different NT texts which predate their collection into a single volume arund 350 AD. There is no such evidence to support the events of the novel DDeacula.

Finally we have the historical reports of the appearance of the novel Dracula, the interviews with the author, critic reviews, etc. While with the Bible we have reports of the authors and how they gave their lives in sacrifice to spread the message of the Bible, often being executed for their faith. People do not do that for a "novel".

While you have twisted - I mean listed - a handful of things they share in common, you have overlooked the rest of the evidence (that does not fit your prejudice) that shows why we know Dracula is and novel and the Bible is not.

Lying in the center of Romania, Transylvania is essentially a plateau entirely surrounded by the great arc of the Carpathian Mountains. Richly endowed with medieval castles, cities, and ruins, Transylvania is the home of the legendary Dracula, portrayed in fiction as a vampire. Dracula’s prototypes were 15th-century Princes Vlad Dracul, or Vlad the Devil, and Vlad Ţepeş, known as Vlad the Impaler because of the way he executed his enemies. Naturally, tours of this region include their many haunts.

no its a made up story

its a work of fiction. it is not at all similar to the bible.

your reasoning is skewed

Yup...

vladz the impaler

I take it you don't care for literary genre studies...