[PetroniusMaximus]

***The crucial difference between this and a literal six-day Creation is that God has provided us with direct physical evidence that the latter is not a literal fact.***

Where is your direct physical evidence that the resurrection is a fact?

You can't have it both ways.




***If the story of a talking serpent and the two sacred trees in a secret garden isn't an obvious example of a Parable, I don't know what is.***

Either Jesus
1. took it literally and factually or
2. he was ignorant, or
3. he knew better and was playing to people's ignorance

I believe the one who is the Truth was neither ignorant or a liar.

[StJacques]

". . . I believe the one who is the Truth was neither ignorant or a liar."

Correct; Jesus was neither ignorant nor a liar. And it is no lie to speak of the creation of man by God as referring to the spiritual creation of his soul.

[WildTurkey]

I believe the one who is the Truth was neither ignorant

I would call one that tried to make Adam satisfied with an animal as a partner as not completely the human biological urge.

[Quark2005]

Where is your direct physical evidence that the resurrection is a fact?

There is none.

You can't have it both ways.

I'm not trying to. Reread what I wrote.

Either Jesus
1. took it literally and factually or
2. he was ignorant, or
3. he knew better and was playing to people's ignorance

or
4. He was using Parables to make a point, as He often did, and wasn't concerned with the specifics of natural history, because that wasn't the point He was trying to make.

People who are overconcerned with the literal specifics of ancient Scripture remind me more of the people that Jesus was angry with in the first place. I surely hope you don't literally hate your mother and father, as Jesus literally demanded in Luke 14:26, and see past the literal words to the deeper point He was conveying.

I don't think God is a liar either. He wouldn't place evidence that points to an 4.5 billion earth and the common descent of life on earth and expect us not to believe it.