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Genesis is specifically meant to be taken literally. Sven, one of the biggest problems with believing in Evolution is that you instantly believe that Jesus died for no reason, death was not our fault, and it in fact was part of God's clearly spoken "very good" creation. If we say that Evolution is true and works in tandem with the Bible and that Genesis is not literal means that death was always here, and was not the fault of sin, and therefore Jesus was atoning for nothing. Jesus becomes meaningless, morality a silly idea if you really look at this worldview. And would God allow death to be part of his very good creation? If he used evolution to make the very good creation, then he would have to use death, and thus it would not be very good.
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Now, who said you couldn't believe that the gift of immortality wasn't granted to the first intelligent humans (Adam and Eve)? Who said you couldn't believe that they soiled their gift of immortality with their foolishness? And the rest just falls in line.[quote=Host]
Name one reason to believe that Genesis should be taken metaphorically. Why don't we take everything as a metaphor, like the Gospels? Maybe Jesus was a metaphor for human goodness, so if you do what you believe is good, you gain salvation.
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Name one reason that you have to take it literally. And Jesus was not a metaphor because there are historical texts that confirm his existence.