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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?

I am free to believe whatever I like as long as I don't go out of the bounds set by the Church. The Church requires I believe Adam was a real person and really fell and we all really inherited the fallen state from him.

I am not required to believe God made the world in 6 literal days and literally formed him from a ball of dirt.

I just don't see the necessity of taking the creation tale as a history or science lesson when it clearly was not written for that. I can't reconcile it with what I know from science.

I will continue tomorrow. Have a good night.

>I can't reconcile it with what I know from science.<

Not trying to get last word just getting this thought down in case thread grows.

How does reconcilling creation with science increase your faith and dependence on God? Isn't that what Adam shows us that God's provision is more important than our"aquiring the knowledge"?