You do realise that this essentially constitutes “Just making shit up” in order that a previous held notion can still be maintained, albeit a watered down version?
Verses like this?
“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will.”
Ephesians 1:11
Well that’s certainly true. ‘God’s plan’ doesn’t seem to get as much play these days as it used to. These days Christians really seem to like to trumpet ‘man’s free will’ as their solution to the problem of evil. Though free will isn’t exactly in the Bible either.
Yes although I wouldn’t say the Flood is an “exaggeration”.
Well someone or something but have tempted Eve to thereby cause Original Sin.
Why not?
Her just eating the fruit on her own and blaming it on a talking snake is more likely than a talking snake, don’t you think? And seeing is how you don’t accept 6 day creation as factual, what makes you think Eve’s existence is factual?