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The Genesis Creation Account is Non-Literal

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Many a Christian’s faith has been tested by the 7 days of creation, with plants arising before the Sun and stars. And needlessly so.

Not 20 verses later, God informs Adam that on the day he eats from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, he will surely die.

Fundamentalist literalist pastors will stand on their heads explaining how the latter statement is non-literal, yet everything before it was scientific fact.

God delivered Genesis to oral pastoralists, not a peer-reviewed journal. They didn’t understand that the Earth was round, much less accretion disks and evolution.

Genesis is like one of Jesus’ parables, and none the less true for that.

One might as well complain that it is unrealistic for a king to promote minor stewards to rule multiple cities, without any evidence of political acumen.

The Bible is full of contradictions… for idiots. As is any sufficiently long and complex written text.


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