Ringo writes:
What does the literal truth of the story have to do with the moral? Lots of fictional stories have a moral that you can trust. Ever read The Grapes of Wrath?
Jesus told lots of parables that were not literally true. Do you not trust their morals?
That was the best point in your post, in my opinion. It really bafles me that anybody would even waste any time/effort trying to make up a literal interpretation of anything in genesis, when all they have to do is to realise that the genesis is nothing more then a collection of fables (there are even talking snakes!!) used as leverage to teach kidds about morals.
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