(August 29, 2019 at 10:05 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Your Christian beliefs powerfully depend on a literal reading.
Your Christian beliefs may not be the totality of your beliefs or even the largest component of your beliefs....but they would by necessity provide a “reason” to read genesis literally.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter if the authors didn’t take it literally, because they weren’t Christians, and so they lacked the commitments of your religious position.
What Christian beliefs are those?
It's always fun to hear an atheist tell me what my Christian beliefs are?
I'm guessing given the context, you're appealing to some particular atonement theology. If so, I hate to break it to you, even among the large body of believers considered orthodox, there's no unified view of atonement among them. That you can in any meaning way say represents Christian beliefs.