Flesh and Blood

Some people, whom I judge as overly metaphysical thinkers, believe in the God of the Bible, but also believe that the history of the Old Testament is just a story through which God reveals to us who he is; it didn't literally happen. In other words, they believe God is real and that he reveals himself through scripture, but they don't believe that the events recorded in scripture did not literally take place, such as the events recorded in Genesis in the Garden of Eden.

I want to ask these people one question: How could a God, who made the world and time and space through which we exist and experience His reality, not also choose to manifest Himself through time and space the same way we exist in it? What good is a theoretical story to a person with flesh and blood, all of whose faculties (which are what make him like God and able to relate to and perceive who this God who made him is) exist and operate on a physical, material level as well as a spiritual level? Such a god would be a fool to expect anyone to believe he was real.

If the writers of Scripture did not tell us of events that really happened, then they were talebearers. God does not need lies to reveal transcendent truth.