Don

The basic idea is that the Bible uses phenomenological language quite a bit. It describes things by appearance and not necessarily “real” reality. This turns out to be a good thing as views on reality change, while appearance is pretty consistent. And believers can differ on what is phenomenlogically “real” and what is really “real” in the Bible. Just a few centuries ago, Galileo was persecuted based on the interpretation of a few verses. Now most of us see those verses as “not really real” but they did back when.

The questions that I asked that were not answered were:
1. The 5 pericopes at the start of Genesis.
2. The offer to exchange reading, if someone reads Paradigms on Pilgrimage (which I admire highly), I offered to read a similar book with a different viewpoint.