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The point betty boop has been trying to make is that a "myth" can be either true or false. The modern notion of a "myth" is usually something false, but that was not the original meaning. She and I both speak with the original meaning.

The theory of evolution is a myth, a story. That doesn't mean it is false. It could indeed be true.

All historical science theories are myths. They are stories based on an incomplete quanitization of the continuum of history (e.g. archeology, Egyptology). Again, that doesn't mean their stories are all false - or true.

But conveying Truth is often the purpose of a myth!

Parables, metaphors and types are a most excellent way of conveying Truth - and are frequently used for that exact purpose throughout Scripture.

Likewise, the Greek philosophers used myths to convey truth.

[ Parables, metaphors and types are a most excellent way of conveying Truth - and are frequently used for that exact purpose throughout Scripture. ]

Exactly.. like the first three chapters of Genesis seem to be metaphorical.. One mid east language scholar I know translates the word "creation" as "re-creation" or remodeling.. implying but not specifying a possible pre-earth(as we know it) civilization, at least a pre-earth, civilization or not.. Be that as it may the Genesis rendition could be much more than a "creation". i.e. what happened to the earth that would require a re-creation.., like that..

My unpublished book, "The Universal Canvass" goes into that possiblity as an opener.. Fiction true.. but maybe not completely.. LoL.. If the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is not a metaphor (and a good and deep metaphor) I would be extremely surpised.. same with the other metaphorical images outlined in the single best seller of them all, the Bible..