He was who the Bible says he was -- the first man and progenitor of our species, the man who disobeyed God in grasping for knowledge of good and evil, and found himself fallen and in need of redemption.
I do believe God formed him from the earth, just in a different way than one who takes a literal approach to the creation tale.
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>I do believe God formed him from the earth, just in a different way than one who takes a literal approach to the creation tale. <
Do you have a orderly and consistent way of determining what is literal and what is figurative other than it doesn't fit my hypothesis therefor it can't be literal?