[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

[Belacqua]

I understand you are willing to believe anything a priest says in a video, if you happen to agree with it.

Paul, in the New Testament, interprets Genesis allegorically. Normally Paul is thought to have some authority in Christianity.

First, he's not a priest but bishop of Oxford.

Second, Paul did interpret Genesis literally, for instance he was known of saying stuff like that he doesn't permit women to teach or to have authority over a man because Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.

22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory