I'll regret this later, I'm sure. Agree with this wholeheartedly. One of the main reasons I moved away from the church (LCMS) was the fundamental silly simplicity of thought. It all boils down to "The Bible is the literal Truth of everything" which is patently ridiculous. Nobody every wants to discuss why Sin is bad. Sin is bad because it leads us from God. An act is not bad on it's face unless it leads us away from God. That still leaves plenty of opportunities to sin without having to make a stupid list and include a bunch of things that EVERYONE does. Our human nature leads us to sin, not because it causes us to do human things, but because we do them in selfish and hurtful ways.
I won't even go into the absolute goofiness of having to believe the outlandish shit in the Bible actually happened for it to count. Jonah doesn't have to be an historical event for the story to work. Nor does the flood or any of the other "miracles". Whether any of these things really happened or not doesn't change the moral of the stories. It's easy for me to understand the point of a parable or an allegory without having to make the ridiculous jump to "Bible says it happened so it did."
Pretty much anything in the Bible that was oral tradition, should be treated as morality fable. It still works the same way and you don't have to lie to yourself about how it actually happened that way. The idea that God couldn't inspire these stories to point the direction versus actually performing the miracles, diminishes God, it doesn't strengthen him.
Then Jesus came along and said this is the New Testament and clarified that God is Love and therefor to come to God you must love one another as God loves us. The sacrifice of the Lamb is a beautiful thing in itself, and you don't need to get bogged down in the minutia of Law and literal ism to understand how to come to God.
It's impossible for me to reconcile how two adult human beings in a loving relationship can be a bad thing in that context. Yes, our humanity makes us sinful in the context that God is the perfect embodiment of Love. We fail at being that every day and can only try our best, but to actively judge and ostracize another person for those same failings is insane.
Any belief that required me to ignore what I know to be true, and dumb it down to "God gave us this book 2000 years ago and every word is true, and if you don't believe that then you can't come to God" should be offensive to God himself, if he made us in his image. It requires us to reject objective reality for no damned reason at all except someone too stupid to understand what it's really saying says so. More importantly, it actually leads us away from God which is the greatest sin of all.