text: << If the liberal scholars are right--if Adam and Eve are nothing but a myth, so is Sodom and Gomorrah.>>
  
  It's not that Adam & Eve are "nothing" but a myth. In reality this primordial event never happened. But the story of the Fall is an ingenious attempt to explain the dawn of consciousness, the reason for suffering, and the existence of evil. 
  
  <<If Biblical moral and doctrinal teaching is suspect, so is Biblical teaching on social justice.>>
  
  Well, the kingdom of God is a vision of social justice, so it seems you have a problem with Christianity.