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If you understand the bible literally than you must understand how the stories were meant. They are not meant to depict God as a killer, but are tales with moral and poetic background. Of course they are meant literally but are meant as stories and not as historic record. I mean come on, not even people back then believed that Adam and Eve were real people. God cursed and killed no one

Jesus referenced these stories on multiple occasions as literal events, and so did Paul, Peter and John in their epistles. Its is clear through reading the new testament that the Christian church believed all the events of the Old testament. If the founders of the Christian church believed literally then the modern church should also believe it...that is if they want to be called Christian.