Do you portray the Bible in your fantasy novels? Do you have your own sort of Bible according to the fantasy religion (if there is a religion at all)? Do you think it's okay to portray the Bible in fantasy novels or would you rather leave it out?

Well...it's definitely "all right." Beyond all right, in fact, to use the Bible in a fantasy you're writing.

However, at the same time, we must be very, very, very wary of adding things or misinterpreting ideas in Scripture. There's a fine line between allegory and misinterpretation, and if we choose to write using direct allegory or Bible passages, we have the responsibility to be careful about the truth of God's Word.

And then at the other extreme, I believe it's perfectly acceptable not to directly quote the Bible in your fantasy story. Much depends on what is universal truth in your story. Which merits its own thread, of course. So at the moment this paragraph may be considered purely opinion .

In my story, I have a Creator who indirectly oversees the world through peacekeeping elemental spirits called Verai (I love that name!!). Thus, I have these verai speaking the truth, without having an actual Bible.

Hope that's semi-helpful!

Maybe it isn't always necessary to have a Bible per se; the reason for the story being to bring out values, truths, and morals the Bible teaches, rather than using the actual Bible itself.

I also understand what you're saying but half-agree with you. There is no reason why our words can't have the same power as the Bible. Just as the writers of the Bible were inspired by the Holy Spirit, so can we (along with our words) if the Holy Spirit inspires our thoughts, minds, and pens.

Our words do have power and our words can have God-inspired truth, but they cannot ever be used as a "Bible" because they are not the Bible. The Bible is the only basis of absolute truth and it would be wrong to make out our own words as such.

Now that I realize my mistake, I'm not going to be using the Bible or any other form of it in Murel.

I won't be using the Bible because it wouldn't make sense to have Earth's Bible in Murel. Earth and Murel are not only two different places, but when one exists the other does not and vice versa.
Think of it this way: it would look really weird if Coca Cola was also in Murel. It's the same thing.

I think I understand what Suiauthon means. The Bible is written in earth, not only in earth, but in specific nations on earth, by specific people on earth, and if it was written any other way it would not be the Bible.

Some people have things from earth in their Otherworlds, C. S. Lewis had portals between earth and Narnia, Tolkien had english (called the Common Tongue) in Middle Earth. But otherwise Fantasy authors take abstract ideas from earth rather than actual things.

For instance there are usually people, but there may not be people from earth. A person could write a story where the Apostle Peter finds a portal to an Otherworld, or a story where a fictional character born in earth goes to an Otherworld (like Peter Pevensie), or a fictional character born in an Otherworld who has never heard of earth (like Sam Gamgee, though he has an English name). Likewise an author may have books, just as in earth, but not books from earth, such as the Encyclopedia Britannica, or the Bible. If they did include books from earth it would suggest some kind of portal-like connection.

However... it does create problems for the people who have colonized this otherworld, to read about nations and tribes (like Israel, Egypt and Greece) that do not exist in their world. Enemies and skeptics put down the Bible as being a pure product of fantasy.

@Jonathan
Good thought. And how often do we have to quote the Bible word for word? Do we have to at all? The 'book' (if it's even that) doesn't have to be quoted word for word. In many cases we could just paraphrase the book into the spiritual truths that are immutable throughout all worlds.

We must be careful, and above all we must place God's glory before what we think would be cool.

You can, of course. In my sister's fantasy about ants, she has the mentor quote Proverbs multiple times, simply stating that it's "wisdom from the Book" She doesn't go into what the book is. I love how she did that.

However... it does create problems for the people who have colonized this otherworld, to read about nations and tribes (like Israel, Egypt and Greece) that do not exist in their world. Enemies and skeptics put down the Bible as being a pure product of fantasy.

I don't think it has to be word for word. Perhaps it could be thought of like translating it into another language, only instead we're translating truths from it into another world.