You know what I've been through.

Study the higher criticism, reverently, if you will--even broaden into the higher unbelief.

Times have changed since my youth; one may broaden into almost anything now and still be orthodox, especially in our church.

But beware of the literal mind, the material view of things.

Remember that the essentials of Christianity are spiritually historic even if they aren't materially historic--facts in the human consciousness if not in the world of matter.