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Quote by: Hurt  Of course you can believe in both. It's just as helio has said. I just find it weird that you can do such a thing - pick and choose what's literal and what's not. Many people don't just skimp on certain bits.. they seriously pick and choose. This just happens to be one of them. |
There is a somewhat accurate way to pick and choose, Genesis probably wasn't ever intended to ever be taken as much more than a possible explanation whose higher purpose was to express religious truth (man created in god's image, man and woman given dominion over the earth, etc.)
Exodus is relatively clearly intended to be taken as at least a partially historical text, giving the story of a people who follows their god to a land promised to them.