The collective termed humanity has one overriding trait that doesn’t seem to have much in the way of additional evolutionary survival value – imagination 
in the form of storytelling. Language, yes; large highly developed brains, yes; intelligence, yes; pattern recognition, yes; memory, yes; curiosity, yes; ability to figure things out, yes; inventions and tool use, yes – but imagination in the form of storytelling, not so much. There’s of course non-fictional storytelling (i.e. – like gossip), but that doesn’t require imagination. That other kind of storytelling is via the human imagination – that almost hardwired inborn trait we seem to nearly all have. We use our imagination for storytelling purposes. We have the ability, almost duty, to tell tall tales otherwise called works of fiction. Dreams are one sort, but dreams are pretty much highly personal fictions. I’ll ignore those, albeit dreams can in turn inspire non-realities, sometimes even real realities for public consumption. For the public arena, that still leaves novels, short stories, poems, plays, feature films, TV shows, video games, operas, songs, campfire tales, even non-literary works of art like paintings and sculptures, etc.All up, humanity has generated multi-millions and millions of imagination-derived works of non-reality fiction and said works of fiction vastly outnumber non-fiction showing the overriding urge for humans to create non-reality ‘realities’, all courteous of the human imagination.One such subdivision of all fiction, even if not always so realised by its human creators yet still a product of pure storytelling imagination, is mythology or folktales. There are multi-thousands upon thousands of invented mythologies originating from all across the human globe; from all cultures and societies across all of recorded history and probably as oral stories before the dawn of written records.
Today nearly all mythologies are accepted as works of pure imaginative fiction, except those that are still accepted as non-fiction and therefore as truth. These brands of mythology collectively go under the banner of religions, and are otherwise known as such. Of course each religion regards each and every other religion as a fictional mythology. So the question is, given human propensity to tell tall tales – the products of human imaginations – those multi-millions and millions of fictional works and the multi-thousands upon thousands of mythologies, how can just one mythology, a religious mythology, represent a really real reality and not be a non-reality ‘reality’? Only one (of multi-thousands) of religious mythologies can be true at best, although that’s not of necessity a given. But if you suggest that any one part of the Bible is the product of human imagination; if the talking snake is the product of the human imagination, then you would have to logically be willing to concede if not downright conclude that nearly all of the Bible* is the work of the human imagination.Other obvious examples of the human imagination at work and waxing lyrical in the Bible bible study kit include the creation of a woman from a male rib; another woman being turned into a pillar of salt; a burning bush (that talks) that actually isn’t being consumed in the flames; the relationship between human hair length and strength; Jonah’s ‘whale’-of-a-tale; and the turning of water into wine, an obvious case of imaginative wishful thinking.*Excluding a few non-supernatural historical events that have been independently confirmed.
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