(July 20, 2011 at 11:12 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: If the story is not literal, how then did humanity fall from grace? If humanity never fell from grace, there is nothing for Jesus to save us from. If humanity had always been out of grace, why would a sinless god who can't abide sin create us so?
I'm sure you could probably find an apologist who has spent their lives reconciling Christianity with the fact that Adam and Eve is metaphorical. John Paul II openly declared evolution to be true so someone has to have spent plenty of time working on this issue.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell