[cornfedcowboy]

Yup. Genesis is a wonderful book of God revealing himself. Beautiful.
I too think people trying to make it literal, or non-literal, are wasting time. God loves us and that is enough.

[ealgeone]

If what is recorded in Genesis aren't actual events and people then the rest of Scripture can be called in to question.

However, these were real events and people as Jesus and the NT writers understood them to be real.

And I think Jesus should know....He was there at the beginning!