<<IOW declaring a passage allegorical doesn't necessarily mean
that the literal sense is false. It just means that the passage carries a
spiritual meaning that transcends the literal words. I'm totally in
agreement with Glenn that it's possible to use (or perhaps misuse)
allegorical interpretation to excise the concrete meaning from the text,
and I'm as opposed to that as he is. But the allegory = lies paradigm
seems to me to throw out the baby with the bathwater.>>
Exactly the point. Sproul, Bloesch, Pinnock and the great Karl Barth, to name
only four, express this view of Genesis 1 as well.