tjakey

Sorry folks, I’m not that smart but I can read. The first chapters of the bible explicitly state that the cosmos was created in just 6 days, (Try it, you can’t make the story any more explicit or exact if you tried, “there was morning and evening”.) It also insists that human kind existed before the sun, as did plants and animals. The bible is also very clear in teaching that all of creation is roughly the same age, and no older than humanity.

And in all of that it is utterly, completely, and inarguably (if you don’t have your head completely up your ass) wrong. Since that false cosmology sets the stage for the claimed fall and thus need for the redemption of said human kind – the entire ideological edifice can rightly be judged to be false. The only thing Christianity has triumphed in is perpetrating a lie for a few thousand years of history. This is not unusual or remarkable; the same has been done by the Hindus, Buddhists, those that claimed the earth was flat and those that insisted the earth was the center of the solar system.

charley63

The non-literalist believer, and I am not a believer, would hold that all of the Bible is only a record of the faith of those who composed the passages, not necessarily a record of facts. The believer who composed the genealogy of Adam to Noah was tying together a vast tapestry of folktalkes into a single narrative. That composer was not an eyewitness, but was saying that all of the stories that early Hebrews were telling each other belong to a single narrative. That single narrative may be factually inaccurate, but it does express their faith that all of the stories are interconnected.

peace! Charley