Depends on whether you're following a superficially preconceived interpretation or trying to make up your own mind, doesn't it?

Absolutely, we could say metaphorical or even metaphysical.

The popular negative view is that Adam and Eve are merely a figment of the church to keep the people compliant and to justify the Ten Commandments, for example, or to vividly recount the Fall of Man.

I tend to be a proponent of this concept.

In this idea if we bring a child's innocent creative at-tention/in-tention to be raised on a set of ideologies which appear morally sound but have an inverse meaning of: This is what and who you are ... and you're going to do those things your whole life, and you are going to feel regret and guilt, and then you will ask for forgiveness, and then do it again in fine insanity fashion, then it starts to take on a yucky taste in the minds of creative loving people who do not think: "I am inherently bad." I personally find the idea ridiculous because free will is always present, and sometimes a state of being is a temporary thing which does not give a full picture of who the person is, or if they are inherently bad or inherently good.

In this aspect, the idea that mankind is collectively split down the middle so to speak, makes a bit of sense at least in my mind.

On the other hand, the self-conception with which people judge relationship fraud among couples is based on Christian values.

I woke up thinking about this today actually.

It's an interesting topic indeed, because we live in this world where there's some wildly polarized views regarding the dynamics of man and woman intimate relationship.

Currently I am undecided if I still be-lie-ve in monogamy, and really I think the fact that this thought comes after a long life of having this strong moral high ground regarding monogamy gives me a bit of paws pause...

A life with surprise sexual encounters is kind of fun and enjoyable, and why should a man or woman feel ashamed of enjoying the pleasure that comes from sex, or a diversity of sex?

I wouldn't know. My own estimation on this is that there are not many fundamentalists among Christians who take the biblical stories in a literal sense.

In the land of "The American Dream", it's important that one be fast asleep to believe it :D That is an idea I picked up from George Carlin, who had quite a pirates mouth but had some good points regarding the topic, in my opinion.

Most of the people that I have met who are Christians where I live actually do take the writings very literal, devoid of ability to logically debate with themselves the beliefs, contradictions, fallacies, etc.

I don't really know anyone personally though, who has attempted a written interpretation of Genesis or any other biblical story. So I found this idea appealing to try it myself.

I'm so happy that you did, because I've not known many people in this world who think this deeply about the topic.

I haven't even made it to reading the extensive comments on this post yet, which is impressive enough to show there's at least a few people in the world who think about this stuff other than us, on a deeper level :)

Christianity and what came out of it may have been something much more profound than what we give it credit for today.

What is the profound what that came out of it, I submit ;D

I'd love for you to check out this video that was very popular on the Tel-lie-vision when I was growing up.

If the video doesn't work here for whatever reason, try a manual search if you'd like to watch it, Denis Leary - Asshole (Official Uncensored Version).

Enjoy my friend, good day to you! 🤗