Hi @gavvet, I am not sure about Bible and its teachings, but i can surely quote a beautiful analogy from Hindu Mythology.... I did reply on your last week's post but i think it might have got lost or ignored... Anyways,

The scriptures are meant to teach us life lessons thru analogies and stories, it all depends how big your mental frame is to think outside of the box to understand the true meaning. Example

In our scriptures it is said that God had taken 10 different avatars (or re-births) in different forms. Those rebirths in sequence are:

The first form being a Fish, Turtle, Wild boar, half Human half animal, Dwarf man, Full grown but uncivilized man, Cultured social man, then as Krishna - a man who wanted to establish moral human society (even if some past written/unwritten laws had to be broken, as those laws were dictated by previous humans itself), some theories says that Jesus were the last avatar of God (but that's for later discussion)

Scientifically speaking it is now believed that each Avatar (or form) of God depicted the life on Earth - as Life originated from Sea in form of fish, then there were amphibians, then wild animals, then early humans, then humans started framing some laws to separate Social life from Jungle Rule.

Isn't this beautiful - the scriptures that were written 1000s years before contained such an amazing analogy

Hare Krishna, the last form of God was most notorious and clever fellow - we can discuss about his teaching on a different form