If the Bible is metaphorical then perhaps so is the God of the Bible

I'll rephrase then: how do Christians decide which parts of the Bible are true?

Are there similar metaphorical indicators in the creation story of Genesis?

Well is the creation story to be taken literally?

Are the days of creation literally 24 hour periods?
Was the first man literally created from dust?
Was the first woman literally created from a man's rib?

Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being (soul).

Purpledawn raised some questions in which I'm also interested in messages 35, 51, and 54.

Personally, i feel more confident knowing that the NWT is a translation that sticks to the original meaning of the writers rather then continue with false beliefs. Interestingly, the WT society used the King James version as their only bible text. but it was for this very reason that they undertook the task of making a translation of their own. The corrected a lot of the erroneous religious traditions.

i thought cults were groups who follow a human messiah and who lock themselves away from society???

3. God the Father. Known as Jehovah, the Watchtower considers Him to be the only true eternal God, the Almighty. They write, "There was, therefore, a time when Jehovah was all alone in universal space" (Let God Be True, p. 25). Being alone, the first creative act of Jehovah was to create His Son.4. Jesus Christ. Since JWs do not believe in the Trinity, they also do not believe that Jesus is God in the flesh. They add the word "other" four times to Colossians 1:16,17, teaching that Christ was God's first creation, i.e., the reincarnation of Michael the archangel created by Jehovah, rather than the Creator. [The "Watchtower" teaches that Jehovah God created Michael the Archangel before the foundation of the world; Michael was His only begotten son by virtue of the fact that he was the only creature directly created by Jehovah. It was this created Michael who became the JW Jesus (i.e., a denial of the eternality of Christ). JWs say that "Since actual conception took place, it appears that Jehovah God caused an ovum or egg in Mary's womb to become fertile, accomplishing this by the transfer of the life of his first born son (Michael) from the spirit realm to the earth" (Aid to Bible Understanding, p. 920). "Marvelously, Jehovah transferred the life-force and the personality pattern of his first born heavenly son (Michael) to the womb of Mary. God's own active force, his holy spirit, safeguarded the development of the child in Mary's womb so that what was born was a perfect human" (Reasoning, p. 255).] JWs also add an "a" in John 1:1, making the verse read, "the Word was a god" (which in essence, makes the JWs guilty of the same polytheism of which they accuse Trinitarians).

But I dont see how this makes them a cult or how it implies that they created their own Messiah. How do you define cult and what practices do they have which makes them such?

What is the definition of a Christian Cult? A Christian Cult is defined by what they believe about Jesus. What does historic Biblical Christianity teach us about Jesus? The Bible teaches us that Jesus is the One and Only True God from eternity past who had no beginning and will have no end. We are also taught that this One and Only True God is of one essence, only one God, but is a Trinity of three Persons: The Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Further, the Bible teaches us that God the Son, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, in time took on a full human nature with all of its human attributes by conception of the Holy Spirit through the Virgin Mary so that Jesus Christ of Nazareth is now, and will be throughout eternity, one person with a fully Divine nature and a fully Human Nature. This means Jesus has two full, complete and separate natures but is one Person. Further the Bible teaches us that Jesus lived a Human being's life on this earth for 33 1/2 years with all of it's human limitations by humble submission to God the Father; and that through this humble submission He was crucified, died, was buried and then on the third day rose His dead physical human body back to life as a glorified human body, and that forty days later he ascended to heaven and now sits at the right hand of God the Father with a full human and Divine nature, and will so forever.Jehovah Witnesses & the Watchtower are also a Christian cult. They teach that Jesus was first Michael the Archangel the first and greatest creation of Jehovah God, who became a man, died and rose spiritually, not bodily, from the dead. The Jehovah Witness's Jesus is an Angel, not the One and only True God, and not a man. They deny both his humanity and His divinity and as a result are classified as a Christian cult.http://www.layevangelism.com/qreference/christ-cult1.htm

A Christian Cult is defined by what they believe about Jesus.

Please dont honestly tell me that you believe that if the trinity is not taught, then a group is a cult.

A Christain cult is one who does not believe that the eternal Word of God became (was not created) flesh (John 1:14), died on a cross to redeem man from his sins, and now sits at the right hand of God the Father as Lord (Acts 2:33). This is God's revelation as revealed in the Bible, and manifested to us in the Person of Jesus who says "I and My Father are ONE (John 10:30).

Jesus did indeed say "I and the father are one"but he said a similar thing when speaking about his followers at John 10:16
"I have other sheep, which are not of this fold; those also I must bring, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd."

and your own words above that Jesus "now sits at the right hand of God the Father" shows that they are two separate individuals.