EnnuiPoet: "Contents Not To Be Taken Literally"

So is God metaphorical? Are moderate Christian receptive to a non-literal resurrection of Jesus? If not, why not? If we're to assert that the Bible is comprised of poetry, allegory, history, geneaology and so on rather than homogeneous metaphorical prose, it leads into some pretty dicey territory. Jesus' sacrifice atoned for mankind's shared original sin, which resulted from our fall from grace, i.e. excommunication from the garden of eden following Eve's little mishap with the serpent. So for moderates who defend believing in a literal death and resurrection of Jesus in atonement for original sin, denying that there was an actual garden of eden is not an option. For Jesus' death to have meaning, one must read Genesis as historical narrative, which of course is what it was intended to be by the authors, and what essentially all Christians took it to be until science made it look silly.