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The writer may have intended to convey that belief, but he or she wrote that text thousands of years ago based on very limited knowledge. Is there any reason to believe it's true.
Is there any quote by Professor James Barr indicating that he believes it is true.
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At least, I hope, you agree with me that the author of genesis was trying to be literal. I hope I have cleared up why we take the text to at least means.
I don’t care if Professor James Barr thinks the Bible is a fairy tail cover to cover. The bible says that "all scripture is God breathed", one of Gods attributes is truth; he cannot lie. If he does lie, why should we believe anything else the Bible says which has no scientific data behind it? The virgin birth, fire from heaven, God engraving into stone tablets, all the miracles Jesus did, people being lifted into heaven, the resurrection, just to name a few.
“He or she wrote that text thousands of years ago based on very limited knowledge”
What knowledge surpasses an all knowing God?
BTW, you use the: chronological snobbery informal fallacy, when you say that the bible is old and therefore incorrect.
If Genesis 1-11 isn’t true literally the whole Bible falls apart. If we didn’t start dying at the fall and God called the world good before the fall, then why does he call death the last enemy? Why be punished with death if we were death if we were going to die anyway? If we were killing (evolution requires killing, no?) before the fall then why does he say that we are not to kill? Every Bible doctrine is based on the first 11 chapters of Genesis. If the first chapters are flawed, then the whole Bible is useless.
Without the definition of sin we can get from the first chapters of Genesis we are free to decide what sin is. This is a major problem we as Christians face in currently. We are told that Genesis is wrong; we are told that we are animals, having everything in common with animals; we “sin” because we have the DNA to do so. We are told that our behavior is relevant; we are told that there is not absolute good and bad, all of our rules are based on what is most evolutionarily beneficial. Evolutionists have changed the minds of many Christians. We are told that "educated" people believe evolution, the implication being that if you believe in a literal genesis you are uneducated and ignorant.
~Fogus |