The only way I could read the Bible

Being Reasonable: The Blog > Douglas Rushkoff on Turning the Bible into a Comic – and Then Some:

"I’ve been disturbed over the past decade or so that the Bible, which is really a non-linear narrative meant to be understood on a multiplicity of levels simultaneously, has instead been interpreted by contemporary Americans as some kind of literal history. People have gotten so locked into the Bible as something that must have “happened” that they lose the ability to relate to its stories as ongoing. These are the dynamics underlying the human experience.

So it’s this terrible irony: “belief” in the Bible as actual history, or worse, as a real estate claim, reduces the document’s ability to live. It’s the same sort of problem that lawmakers face when the Constitution of the US is treated as something set in stone rather than a document that can evolve. That’s really the creationist/evolutionary argument in a nutshell. Amazingly, if you really look at the Bible, you see that God is arguing for an evolutionary outlook on reality, anyway. "