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I do understand the Analogy. I completely understand the necesity of Jesus to be born of a virgin. He was not born of Adam. Before the fall man (Adam) was created in God's image. After the fall we are created in Adam's image. And our savior came as some say "as the second adam".

And I have already said that I believe in a literal 6 day creation as told in Genesis. Do I have to repeat this phrase in every post for people to read it?

Jesus also told us of the prodigal son. Was he parable or real? It was prophisied that Jesus would come teaching in parables. Was his reference to Adam a parable... or to Adam the symbolic teaching of Genesis... or to Adam the real person?

People that agree with me that mankind is fallen and in need of a savior. That each of us have sinned. That Jesus is this Savior. Well... I'm not convinced that we need to argue with them about whether Adam was a real man or a parable. Because they understand the message.

Jesus made it clear when he spoke in parables and when he did not. When he spoke of the truth of Moses and the Prophets he did so in a way that made it clear that he showed them to be plain facts ,so to speak, and not in a symbolic meaning.

I', sorry if I sound a bit harsj. It just irks me a bit when folks take it uponthemselves to proffess their faith but attack Scripture as such in implicating it's fuzzy wuzzy stuff that our superior minds must somehow divide into truth and non-truth. I agree that the Bible is not meant to be approached with a simplistic state of mind, but I do not believe we are to attempt to explain away core doctrine we do not like.