"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. "
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.
"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
And every single one of them is right!"
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?