pardon my ignorance on the subject if applicable. The main arguement I see is for the bible to be taken metaphorically. When you tell a 5 year old about santa claus, the story with the reindeer and the workshop and chimney and stuff, you expect him to take it literally. The way I see it, the bible was written at a time when average people didn't even know much. people in those days beleived flies came from meat, rats came from rags, and worms came from rainfalls,sky was falt, etc. so Im sure that target audience beleived the bible how it was told.

Are you asking a question?

That is not a metaphor. Supernatural explanations for events are myths.

The word 'metaphor' probably isn't what you're looking for. Perhaps you meant "parable" or "symbolism," both of which exist in the Bible. A parable is a short story with a moral (I think Jesus was fond of those), and a symbol is something which stands for another (ie the serpent stood for Lucifer, though that's a bad example).