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It is hardly arguable that a person who interprets Genesis to be something other than the literal story of creation is denying what the Bible says right off the bat.

Oh yes, they find a way to say it is not literal and spend many words justifying that belief, but it still comes down to disputing what is written.

Now either the Bible is the true word of God or it isn't. It isn't a combination of both.

There are certain points of disagreement or interpretation that are valid because they are either unspoken or not exactly clear.

By the same token, much of it is clearly literal or clearly figurative and a simple understanding of the language in which the reader is reading doesn't leave a whole lot of interpretive freedom.

My reference to your needing proof was meant for the evolutionist or those who think that evolution and creation can be compatible. If you are not one of those, that doesn't apply to you.

By the same token, much of it is clearly literal or clearly figurative and a simple understanding of the language in which the reader is reading doesn't leave a whole lot of interpretive freedom.

So when Jesus is taken to the mountaintop for where he can see all the kingdoms of the earth -- this is literal or figurative? Why? Would your opinion be based on knowledge available to those who first heard this story?

Now either the Bible is the true word of God or it isn't.

Is it true that rabbits chew cud?

Is it true that bats are birds?

Is it true that goats which mate while looking at striped rods will produce striped offspring?

Is it true that "the whole earth was of one language" around 2400BC?

Is it true that the rain, winds, stars, sun, and moon enter through windows in the sky?

Is it true the sea is shut up with doors?

Is it true that ostriches do not attend to their eggs or young?

Is it true that the sun lives in a tabernacle, and "goes forth from the end of heaven"?

Is it true that the earth rests on "pillars"?

Is it true that there are cockatrices and unicorns and dragons?

Is it true that there can be a tree tall enough to be seen "from the end of all the earth", when the earth is spherical?

Is it true that stars are small enough to fall from the sky and then be "stamped upon"?

Is it true that God's promise to drive out the Jebusites and Canaanites succeeded?

Is it true that Solomon's kingdom lasted forever?

Is it true that Zedekiah "died in peace"?

Is it true that Tyrus was completely destroyed forever, and if so how did Jesus and Paul visit there later?

Is it true that the world ended within the lifetime of Jesus's apostles?

Oh yes, they find a way to say it is not literal and spend many words justifying that belief, but it still comes down to disputing what is written.

Did God or didn't God know where Adam was when he asked him where he was ? There is no way to assume that God didn't know where Adam was. It has to be a question in a metaphorical sense yet there is nothing in the text that warns the reader.