"Africa doesn't need biblical justification"..i agree 360.

please allow i to ask these questions with great humility as i am just a student here to learn...

do we take these books to be 100% literal or do we see them as stories passed down to help people relate, explain, and understand life/god? i do recognize that the kebra negast is a lineal line of kings, but for books such as the bible are we to take them to be 100% literal reality.

is it more likely that jesus/iyesus was born through "immaculate conception" from a virgin or that he was the son of "joseph and mary" just as any other human being?

did moses really "part the red sea" or is there a better physical science sort of explanation which was perhaps not known in that time? or is it just a mystical story used as a piece in a puzzle to explain a larger cosmic truth?

do people really believe that "god/christ" is literally going to fly out of the sky on a white horse and slay the seven headed dragon and sort out all of the sin around us and make the world pure again?

do we think that the stories and occurences referenced in these books actually happened as they were written or are they exagerated renditions for greater impact?

did people/civilizations carry these stories/teachings with them as they migrated and in turn they were re-related and redefined to suit those people they were being relayed to?

it seems that throughout history peoples explanation and interpretation of "god" and what/who "god" is directly corresponds to how they can best relate to him/her/it. for example the images of gods and how they mimic the people they are said to represent. i.e. chinese buddha vs. indian buddha or the many different faces of "christ".

salmon rushdie in an interview once said that he no longer needed "god" to explain his world. isn't that to some degree what "religion" is used for in most populations? an "explanation/crutch" for things people can't explain?

do people gain more from these books as teachings or as literal definitions to "the world/life/god"?

do we try make mystical realities conform to us or are we willing to conform to them? rather, do PEOPLE "define" these mystical truths(and determine for themselves what that truth is) or do the mystical truths define people?

pardon i if i seem out of line or ignorant. i am like all still learning, still growing and still trying to "see".

guidance