[quote=Heroic]
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.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.
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Death of the animals. All death, according to Genesis, came as a result of Adam and Eve's sin. If they evolved from animals, then those animals had died before Adam and Eve messed up.
[quote=Heroic]
It tells you in the Bible to take every word in the Bible literally, and in no other way? And that basically implies that since I don't take the Bible literally, I should abandon my relationship with Jesus and start living in sin the way I used to so I can go to Hell.
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There's a careful examination taken to figure out how each book of the Bible was meant. The wording of Genesis already puts it into the needed criteria for a literal book of the Bible, and numerous other factors come into place that confirm this classification. I read a lot about this when I was witnessing to someone about the literal wording of Genesis a while back.