On his website, Hanegraaff expands on the topic. “A literalistic interpretation does as much violence to the biblical text as a spiritualized interpretation that empties the text of all objective meaning,” he writes. “If the historical Adam and Eve did not eat the forbidden fruit and descend into a life of habitual sin, resulting in death, there would be no need for redemption.”
He adds, “If, on the other hand, Genesis were reduced to an allegory conveying merely abstract ideas about temptation, sin, and redemption, devoid of any correlation with actual events in history, the very foundation of Christianity would be destroyed.”
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