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ParanoidObsessive posted...

Ironically, it's actually a very modern concept that people in the past were too stupid to understand metaphors and thus had to interpret the Bible purely literally. Even prior to the era of Jesus, Jews were fully aware that the message was more important than the explicit words, and didn't take every single aspect of it literally. Like the whole "world created in six days" thing.

This is actually incorrect. Many Jews do believe it in a literal sense in that the sun and moon were created on the 4th day. So the first 3 "days" could've been a thousand, million, or billion years since there were no revolutions to determine our concept of time passing. Others just believe the Earth was created ~5700 years ago and was simply created to be billions of years old with dinosaur fossils implanted in the ground to test us? I don't know, I think it's all a bit ridiculous but to each their own.

Either way, orthodox Jews do believe the old testament happened since it was provided by god itself.