http://bible.org/article/authority-bible
Jesus even specifically affirmed as historical several disputed stories of the Old Testament. He affirms as true the accounts of Adam and Eve (Matthew 19:4-5), Noah and the flood (Matthew 24:39), Jonah and the whale (Matthew 12:40), Sodom and Gomorrah (Matthew 10:15), and more.
Is it possible for the Bible to be divinely inspired and yet not be literally true? Or at least parts of it? For example, is it possible to say that Jesus really spoke about Adam and Eve, but that he was referring to them in the same sense that we would refer to Hercules or John Henry or Sarah Connor – which is to say, a shared cultural figure based in myth and not in literal reality. Is that interpretation possible?