[Serious] Literal and Not Literal

[Fake Messiah]

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

Paul is not seeing the Abraham story as an allegory but he is creating an allegory from the story that Abraham had two sons. You just need to continue to read that paragraph.

For instance, this is how christian theologians see it:

Galatians 4:24, NIV: "These things are being taken figuratively: The women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children who are to be slaves: This is Hagar."

Paul builds an allegory from Scripture, illustrating the difference between being born into slavery and being born into the promise by faith in Christ.

https://www.bibleref.com/Galatians/4/Gal...-4-24.html