One thing is for sure. The Bible is a book of stories that force those who see only a literal truth in them to suspend all critical thinking. When I was a kid, Sunday School seemed to be the place where the supernatural events of both the Old and New Testaments were poured into our heads and simply taken for granted that these things really could and did happen.

Snakes really did chat with Eve about God's hiding truth from them. Boats held all animal life on the planet for a year while the whole world of humans drown. God spoke through flaming bushes that did not burn up. Axe heads floated. The right man could raise his hands and stop the sun and the moon dead in their tracks, which meant he could stop the rotation of the earth, without consequences. And of course, the dead were raised to life on a lot of occasions, depending on the need.

It was this raising of the dead that always both fascinated and creeped me out as a kid. Did these kids and adults become famous after this? Did the raisee start to go to heaven and get recalled and get really mad at the raiser for bringing him back to herd sheep again? And how about this: