Abrams also believes that the biblical account of Genesis is a factual literal account.

In this film, she abandons the literal account and chooses the metaphor and the satire, within a customary representation masterly recreated.

This kind of mystical-ethical interpretation was typical for Hugh, who tended to find Genesis interesting for its moral lessons rather than as a literal account of events.

Clodd was an agnostic and wrote that the Genesis creation narrative of the Bible is similar to other religious myths and should not be read as a literal account.

A literal account of creation was impossible, since nobody had been present at these unimaginable events: myth and symbol were thus the only suitable way of describing them.

These myths were never intended as literal accounts of creation and salvation; they were symbolic expressions of an inner truth.

The doctrines of creation and revelation, for example, were not literal accounts of actual events in the life of God and the world.

He said he hoped that "Mr. Goldwyn" gets at "the essence of the man," though it is not a strictly literal account.

A literal historic account of Genesis would place the chicken before the egg.

They continue to believe in a literal Biblical account of creation.