[Rhadaghast]

What part of Death was metaphorical?
If it was a spiritual death, then all the 'people' living before Adam would then have to have been spiritually perfect beings.

Your hypothesis does not stand up to the plain text, or the metaphorical text of scripture.

Perhaps Jesus was the one that he was speaking metaphorically about. He must not have completed the work of salvation then. Which part is metaphorical?
You can't have it both ways.


There is no dispute between what we don't know or understand and what God did in creating a young earth.

[2nsdammit]

OK, then I'll be less charitable.

Either he was deluded, or he was repeating folk tales he had heard, or he was deliberately telling lies to convince ignorant people of the truth of his story.

How's that?