[Alate_One]

Originally Posted by serpentdove

What reason does scripture give you to spiritualize Genesis?

Genesis has been viewed in a non-literal light long before there was science to cause problems for a strict literal interpretation of genesis.

Around the year 200 Origen wrote this:

What intelligent person can imagine that there was a first “day,” then a second and a third “day”—evening and morning—without the sun, the moon, and the stars? [Sun, moon, and stars are created on the fourth "day."] And that the first “day”—if it makes sense to call it such—existed even without a sky? [The sky is created on the second "day."] Who is foolish enough to believe that, like a human gardener, God planted a garden in Eden in the East and placed in it a tree of life, visible and physical, so that by biting into its fruit one would obtain life? And that by eating from another tree, one would come to know good and evil? And when it is said that God walked in the garden in the evening and that Adam hid himself behind a tree, I cannot imagine that anyone will doubt that these details point symbolically to spiritual meanings, by using an historical narrative which did not literally happen.

It's not rocket science to look at Genesis 1 at least and realize it isn't intended as history . . .

Ex 20:11; 31:17. Do you spiritualize the resurrection of Jesus, too?

I've answered this question a dozen times before . .no and there's no reason to do so. The AiG fear of a slippery slope is unfounded.

When do you start believing the Bible?

I believe the Bible. You apparently don't understand it.