Primordial Sex--Eden as Allegory

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Many leave the church and your god BECAUSE they have read the bible IN IT'S ENTIRETY and no longer want to be associated with such nonsense.

well i haven't heard any of those stories, but i have heard stories of athiests who really hate the bible try to prove it wrong and instead find more evidence supporting the accuracy of the bible and convert because of it. not scientists (because they just ignore the bible) but historians. there are a few scientists though.

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Quest for the historical Jesus
Main article: Quest for the historical Jesus
Traditionally, Western scholars considered the Gospel accounts of Jesus to be authoritative and inspired by God, but, starting in the late 18th century, scholars began to submit the Gospels to historical scrutiny. From 1744 to 1767, Hermann Samuel Reimarus composed a treatise rejecting miracles and accusing Bible authors of fraud, but did not publish his findings.[159][160] Gotthold Lessing published Reimarus's conclusions in the Wolfenbuettel fragments.[12] D.F.Strauss's biography of Jesus set Gospel criticism on its modern course.[12] Strauss explained gospel miracles as natural events misunderstood and misrepresented.[161] Joseph Renan was the first to portray Jesus simply as a human person.[12] Albrecht Ritschl had reservations about this project, but it became central to liberal Protestantism in Germany and to the Social Gospel movement in America.[12] Martin Kaehler protested, arguing that the true Christ is the one preached by the whole Bible, not a historical hypothesis.[12] William Wrede questioned the historical reliability of Mark.[12] Albert Schweitzer[162] showed how modern histories of Jesus had reflected the historians' bias.[12] Karl Barth and Rudolph Bultmann repudiated the quest for historical Jesus, suppressing any real interest in the topic from c 1920 to c 1970.[6] There was a brief New Quest movement in the 50s.[12] The 80s saw the founding of the controversial Jesus Seminar.[163] The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states that historical efforts to construct a biography of Jesus are as strong as ever, thanks to better knowledge of 1st-century Judaism, a rebirth of Roman Catholic scholarship, the acceptance of historical methods across denominations, literary analysis of Jesus' sayings, and sociological insights.[12] However, Scot McKnight has said that the latest quest for the historical Jesus is dead.[164]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus

You might want to re-read this again mate.