(April 4, 2013 at 3:47 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Is a talking to a snake really any more ridiculous than a Jew coming back from the dead? Why is one self-evidently ridiculous while the other isn't?I guess that just depends on your perspective, to some extent. In direct response to your question, the Genesis accounts do not shout "this is history" in the way the Gospel accounts do. Moreover, Scripture itself points to the Genesis accounts as allegorical calling them 'dark sayings of old'.
"I will open my mouth in a parable : I will utter dark sayings of old, which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us." Psalm 78:2,3
“I have also spoken to the prophets, and gave numerous visions; And through the prophets I gave parables." Hosea 12:10
