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In this episode of Religion Today, Martin Tanner discusses such issues as whether Eve was created from the rib of Adam and whether the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah existed. This episode originally aired on KSL Radio on January 26, 2013 and appears here by permission of KSL Radio. The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or of FairMormon.
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Elements of a story can be symbolic, the forbidden fruit probably wasn’t an actual fruit but it is a symbol, but Adam and Eve were real persons living in a real place. Saying the creation part of Genesis is all symbolic or all literal is kind of silly. And sometimes what looks symbolic at first glance can be literal. My body is literally made from the dust of the the earth, and there is a process where the molecules in the dust of the earth become food which then through another process becomes the stuff my body is made of, so if my body is made of the dust of the earth literally, why not Adam’s as well?