I haven't gotten as far as I would like. I feel kind of bogged down with it. It's funny because all my life (before I started to read the Bible) I have kind of believed what some have said in here....the bible wasn't meant to be taken literally. I always believed that it was a representation of what may have happened. Kind of like "it's raining cats and dogs" and "Moses parted the Red Sea". They always seemed the same to me. The problem was, and what prompted me to start to read, that religious people always seemed to take it it very literally when I had conversations about it. I have always believed, myself, that Jesus was the son of God the same way you or I are "the son of God" not that he was ACTUALLY the son of God.