Reply #69: I think we have a misunderstanding of historicity of myth as I was

[Leontius]

using it or I may have used the wrong word. I don't mean it to imply an, "authentic recitation of history", just the connection to events in the past that they convey to the hearers of the myth however tenuous. As an example the 'Iliad' is myth but the underlying history is, Troy existed, Mycenae existed, there was a war. Did the events in history happen as in the myth? no, are the characters in the myth historical? probably not but the connection of the past to the present is still there. Concerning the stories in Genesis just a quick comment; the creation story is not a scientific textbook or explanation so whether the details are bunk has no significance at all.The other points you raise are I think just PC talking points or rejected ideas of their meaning by theologians and the majority of believers who have studied them past grade school level Sunday school with some exceptions, ie literalists and creationists.