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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, Episcopalians, Quakers, Presbyterians, Methodists, United Church of Christ, Congregationalists, some varieties of Lutheran . .  I'm sure there are more, but there are many denominations that don't see the bible as literal. [/quote]

OK, OP here, it was at a Methodist Church.  I guess I was surprised at the literal teaching during VBS.  But maybe it is a little hard to teach a less literal interpretation to elementary aged and preschool students.

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Children are naturally open to stories being just pretend, so I think if they were presented that way, the kids would get it.[/quote]

I don't know.  Kindergarteners are notoriously confused about real and pretend even in straightforward situations.  The nuance of a story being both inspired by (or written by, depending on what you need) God, in order to teach us something important, while still including elements that aren't literally true, is a pretty complex thing to understand when you're five or six.

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