re: Don't take the Bible literally says scholar who brought earliest Latin analysis of Gospels

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The Gospels can't even agree what time of day Christ was crucified

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3 of the 4 say he died at "the 9th hour", 3 pm. That is the biggest point with Good Friday. Not when he was crucified, but when he died.

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When God said, "Let us make man in our own image", who was he talking to?

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The whole premise of the Creation Story is that it was told by God to the author, supposedly Moses. The "us" and "our" was referring to the angels. Man was supposed to be perfect, with the one difference between him and God/the angels being the lack of knowledge of good and evil.

Cain and Abel were the first two children mentioned due to their significance in the story. Doesn't mean that there were not others born before them. They were mentioned because it is the first recorded murder and played a big role in the direction that "fallen" man would take.