(September 9, 2019 at 10:02 pm)Grandizer Wrote: The much later "experts" doubted that the accounts literally happened. This doesn't mean the myths weren't originally meant to be taken literally.
That's true. The fact that experts in Plato's time thought that myths were probably non-literal tells us nothing about the original authors of those myths.
It does tell us that in the 4th century BC, long before the New Testament, and perhaps 100 or 200 years after the stories in Genesis were put together (depending on which expert you read) people found it easy to accept non-literal readings.
