The Full Spectrum of Christian Belief on Origins - where are you?

Just to clarify, could you say However I also believe that God can do all things and may have done it the TE way, although the Biblical available in my opinion does not support this. In other words, do you hold Creationists to this same high standard?

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I am a number 6, but it is only a belief, I make no attempt to tell anyone I know for certain.

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I'd fall under 7 or 8. Adam ("man") and Eve ("living") are characters in a mythic account, so in the same way that I don't believe in Pandora ("all gifts) or Woden's ravens Huginn and Muninn ("thought" and "remembering"), I doubt Adam and Eve were historical figures. As Gluadys would explain, Paul made a parallel of Adam and Christ, conceiving Adam and Eve (male and female) as typological representatives of humanity in its totality.

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Quite a list there. Never realized there were so many.
I need to get out more

Somewhere between 6-8. Possibly a mixture too. In that, if there was not a "literal" Adam and Eve, you can still say that the first two organisms that could be called human, became sentient, gained a soul, etc. = Adam and Eve.

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Maybe we misread the evidence form science, maybe we misread the Bible.
Most likely we all do both to a greater or lesser extent in fact, and start off from our differing bias too, since we're all fallible.

I tend strongly towards the YEC view.

Vance, regarding your first two options; geocentricity and flat-earth theory:
there has been an overlap of those who believe them and also believe YEC, but they are not really to do with origins are they?

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They are, obliquely.

This is because for many YECs, the position is that whatever the scientific evidence, YEC is true, because that's what The Bible* says.

Geocentrists are geocentrists for exactly the same reasons. Flat earthers also.

And this is, of course, where my footnote comes in:

*by which the holder of the position means "my interpretation of the Bible".

What is always interesting is to see a heliocentric YECer (the vast majority) defend a non-literal reading of those passages which strongly suggest geocentrism, whilst decrying non-YECers who do the same with the passages suggesting a young earth.

But that's by the by.

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Susana, I understand your point. I agree that the title of the thread ("Christian Belief on Origins") is misleading. But in Vance's intro paragraph, he explained that he was coming at the question from a "how literal do you read Scripture" viewpoint.

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I think this is a good point, Susana, and the list is more based on the "degree of literalism" regarding issues to do with God's Creation, not strictly origins of life, as my title suggests. The way that it ties together is that Flatearthers and Geocentrists also point to Genesis 1 and 2 to support their position (although both point to other Scripture as well, using the most literal, "plain" reading). Basically, the concept is the degree to which we allow the scientific discoveries about God's Creation to inform and clarify our understanding of God's Word.

Geocentrists sometimes hold YEC's in the greatest contempt since YEC's *pretend* to hold strictly to Scripture while clearly allowing their understanding of Scripture to be influenced by secular scientific propositions.

OK, so I misunderstood the question - I must have been taking the reference to origins too literally!

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