Sorry to be so long in getting back to this. For examples of what I mean by different kind of truths, you can check out the devotions I have running on explorefaith.org for the month of August. They're at www.explorefaith.org/signposts/ and there's a new one each day.

Since you brought up Adam and Eve, here's an example (it was the devotion for August 9) for a truth besides the literal one in that story.

Genesis 3:10 “He said, ‘I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

Hiding from God because the anatomy God so carefully crafted is exposed doesn’t ring true. But nakedness means more than wearing no clothes. To be naked is to be vulnerable. Clothing offers various levels of protection from physical harm, as well as the opportunity to conceal things, as anyone who has been through airport security lately can tell you.

Adam is hiding because he realizes he is vulnerable. There is no concealing what he has done, and there is nothing standing between him and God for protection. He is naked before God, and he knows it. So he hides.

That rings true because I do it all the time, as do we all. We know at some level that we are naked—that God knows what we do and who we are at a fundamental level. If we’re honest, we know that’s not always a good thing. There are times when we’ve eaten from the tree and done that which God has forbidden. There are times that we simply realize our own smallness compared to the greatness of God, and we feel ashamed.

And so we hide. We hide behind hymns and prayers in church; we hide behind volunteer work and busy-ness; we hide inside of social issues and intellectual debate and think that God won’t see us there. But we’re wrong.

When Adam does meet God in his nakedness, they have some issues to work out. Adam does pay the consequences of his sin, as we all do in one way or another. But the amazing news is that despite Adam’s sin, God still wants to be in relationship with him and to care for him. God recognizes the fear of naked vulnerability and makes clothes for him. Sin has made some things more difficult, but the love and care of God never come to an end.