Any written text can be either true or false, fiction and mythology have always been wildly popular. The bible, like all works of fiction, was made up by men.
> That seems to remove the possibility to know anything from a written text including science, history, autobiographies, and other forms of non-fiction.
Things aren't true because they're written, they're true because they can be verified as true; writing merely adds the possibility to pass on the knowledge required to verify a truth. Absent re-verification, nothing is true simply because someone wrote it down.
> That seems to remove the possibility to know anything from a written text including science, history, autobiographies, and other forms of non-fiction.
Things aren't true because they're written, they're true because they can be verified as true; writing merely adds the possibility to pass on the knowledge required to verify a truth. Absent re-verification, nothing is true simply because someone wrote it down.