[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

[EgoDeath]

Unless I have good reasons to think human beings in the past behaved differently when exposed to similar stimuli, than humans beings in the present, then I expect them to follow the same predictable patterns. In fact plenty of people in the past wrote of having visions, etc, including in the Bible. So it does seem that this tendency was present then as it is now.

Not necessarily. You're just assuming they'd behave the same because that's what you want to believe. The truth is, you don't know, and you can't stand to admit that.

You're arguing that the creation story isn't literal because it wasn't announced at the beginning of genesis that it was literal. But by this logic, the creation of Adam and Eve isn't literal either, right?

Also, we can then assume that the vast majority of the Bible isn't literal too, right?

All you're doing in this argument with me is proving that, in your view, with your reasoning, you know what is literal and what isn't. To you. You haven't proved anything outside of that. And you certainly haven't proven that any sort of interpretation of the Bible is more valid than another.