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"The reason there are so many demoninations is not due to the impossibility of understanding. It is due to man's own sinfulness and lack of perfect ability to understand, and his unwillingness to accept what God clearly says. "

Which is why each denomination believes that IT understands the Bible as it is supposed to be understood. It's a comedy, really, when you consider on what small points of difference separate some denominations from others, and what wide differences separate others.

When the Biblical account is literally unbelievable, that is a clue to you that the account is allegorical. The creation story is one such instance. Noah's flood is another, since no such flood could physically occur. Others, like the parting of the Red Sea, and Jonah and the great fish, serve to make the point even more clearly.

You have a particular set of Christian beliefs. Other Christians have other sets of beliefs. All are Christians. All have some basic core beliefs regarding Jesus. Those are the beliefs that make one a Christian or not, not fine points of discussion.

It's perfectly OK if you believe that Genesis 1 and 2 are absolutely literally true. If you insist that others believe that, then you are wrong to do so.

If you insist that others believe that, then you are wrong to do so.

I don't insist that others believe anything. I do say that if you choose to ignore the clear meaning of any one piece of Scripture, then you must do the same to the rest of Scripture, and then who is to say that man is really sinful? Did Jesus really actually live? Maybe Jesus didn't actually rise from the dead? The foundation of Christian faith crumbles and belief is just a pretty way to harness the young and bring some comfort to the old.

I believe that if we are not willing to take God at his word then we might as well not believe at all. I, however, choose to believe what God clearly says, and not seek an alternative interpretation that doesn't actually fit the text.

When the Biblical account is literally unbelievable, that is a clue to you that the account is allegorical.

I'm sorry, but in my opinion, when the biblical account is literally unbelievable, that is a clue that the account was made up by primitive, ignorant people who had absolutely no idea what they were talking about. Should we be looking for allegorical meaning in the dozens of other mutually exclusive creation myths that are known?