Even allegory attempts to explain a hyper reality which is as “true” as we know truth to be. That truth being that all men”hath sinned and fell short of the Glory Of God!”
An event happened in the history of man that caused us to lose our birthright with God; perhaps as an event it could be only explained as allegory but the event happened, Satan attempted to intervene with God’s order and men were corrupted in the process.
Yet God planned a corrective and at the right time in history, God thru his Son entered our material universe...indeed Christ is God’s very thumprint pressed into matter.
I think the ¨serpent¨ was an image of God Himself. And with the monstrosity that the human mind is capable of, who needs Satan?
Admittedly I´m not Christian. But I don´t think the US could have been founded without Christianity.
God´s grace to You and Yours....