Who says the Bible is not to be taken literally?

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If you think the creation story is literally true, why are there two different accounts of creation in the book of Genesis?
 
So you think that people in ancient times were no brighter than 6 year olds so instead of explaining the truth in a way that could be understood, He gave us a fake story that we could understand?
How does getting us to understand something that isn’t so, make any sense?
Specifically what part of the secular evolution story is it that is so complex that people of long ago would not be capable of comprehending?
 
Carbon dating is only used for stuff that is tens of thousands of years old. Not stuff that is millions of years old. Carbon doesn’t last that long. We have other techniques for the really old stuff.
Clue one that the OP, as well meaning as he may be, is clueless about science.

The faith and the Church is much bigger and much more beautiful than a Protestant fundamentalist reading of Genesis.
 
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You don’t think the engineers that built the temples of Solomon could comprehend creation?
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I can’t comprehend creation. Can you?
God is not bound by the laws of physics. Time is irrelevant to Him. So it is perfectly plausible that the Earth was made six days.
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What is the measure if a day, how is it bound? We measure it by rotation of earth, giving us light and dark in each turn.
I believe the Bible because I used to think it was fiction. I was tired of being told about he Bible so I set out to debunk it. It took about ten years of study to draw the conclusion that the Bible could not be debunked and does indeed hold the truth.
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You’re right there, Mikey! The Bible is truth, you just gotta learn how to read it.

That’s where the Church comes in. Remember Philip and the Ethiopian? (Acts 8: 26-40)
 
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How did you determine that the stuff is of that age? How could you possibly know how old an object is unless you’ve identified it from a specific period of history IE a WWII fighter is known to be from the 1940s.
 
Faith of the church? You don’t even have faith in the fact that the Bible is true!
 
How about this? No ancient human would have been mistaken about the sun (the big, bright, warm ball in the sky) being the source of light on Earth. Nobody, not even one person would have gotten that wrong. So, when Genesis says that God creates light first and independent from the big ball in the sky, then perhaps this is a sign to the reader that something more than crude physical description is being enunciated.

Perhaps, “illumination” itself is the most basic activity of God. He enlightens all darkness, and His light overcomes all chaos… perhaps that is the first and most basic activity of God vis-a-vis the creation—to bring light and warmth and the possibility of life to all things. To get rid of all darkness and to reveal things as they are in themselves…
 
The point is that today we have science teachers claiming that the Earth was made from a big bang, then slowly the Earth evolved over millions of years and eventually became what it is today.
What is so difficult about that scenario that is too complicated for a person who lived 3 thousand years ago to comprehend? How does telling us 6 days if it was infact millions of years clearify anything?
 
What about the two different accounts of the creation story. They both can’t be literally true.
 
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The point is that today we have science teachers claiming that the Earth was made from a big bang, then slowly the Earth evolved over millions of years and eventually became what it is today.
What is so difficult about that scenario that is too complicated for a person who lived 3 thousand years ago to comprehend? How does telling us 6 days if it was infact millions of years clearify anything?
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What’s so difficult about telling us exactly how creation occurred:
  1. God wanted us to have something to think about and figure out for ourselves and fill libraries
  2. my grandson would be so bored if chapter 1 of Genesis began with “Laws of Gravity” chapter 2 - “Trajectory of stars” etc.
Genesis is about love, that’s all. It’s how God wanted to begin the story of His love for us.
 
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