Can you be a Christian and only believe some parts of the Bible? For example, can you reject a global Noah's Flood, a six-day creation, a literal exodus, etc.? Could you reject other parts as well, like Christ walking on water? Discuss.
If you reject the creation account, the exodus and Noah's flood then based upon the idea that they are too absurd to be true how then can you accept Messiah's death and Ressurection along with the virgin birth?
The Bible is an ALL or nothing proposition. It's either ALL true or basically, none of it can be counted on as divine.
If I can not count on the witness accounts of Messiah walking on water, how then can I count on anything they say regarding him? Indeed, how can I even know if he was a real person at all?
We KNOW that the 6-day creation account, in fact, CAN be true. For one thing, the account is told from G-d's perspective. We also know that from
our point in space the universe is ~15 billion years old. This seems to blow holes in the bible's account completely. And for many uninformed people, this is problematic. However, we also know that there are many places in space where the observed age of the universe is NOT 15 billion years old.
As Einstien proved, TIME IS RELATIVE. As you approach the speed of light, time slows. At the speed of light time=0
There are fossils on Mt Everest which prove that at some point in earth's history, Everest was under sea water.
Recent discoveries in Egypt show that a large Semitic (Israelites) were in the land of Goshen. Archeologist reject this as being proof that the Israelites were in Egypt because it is supposed "too early" (off by about 200 years)
My point is that there is evidence that corroborates much of what is in the bible.
Arguably the field of cosmology has more support for the biblical creation than any other scientific field. The several of finely tuned constraints of the universe are so minutely precise that cosmology contends that they can not be mere coincidence. On of them is 10 to the -120th power. That's a 10 with 120 zero's following it. That's a number so big that the mind can't really concieve of it. That .0(120 zeros) 1 meaning that if it was off by just .0(119 zeros) 1 the universe we live in could not exist and there are SEVERAL finely tuned constants. Worse yet, all of the theories to get around this problem have been met with utter failure. String theory has massive problems, the multiverse concept is even more problematic.
The only model that currently exists that doesn't collapse is the Standard model. Which simply states that the Universe had a beginning.
50 years ago the generally accepted theory of the universe was that it was eternal. The discovery of the echo of the big bang changed that view.
We can conclusively say that Science and the Bible are in 100% agreement with the first 3 words of the Bible. IN THE BEGINNING. Science has yet to catch up to the rest of that sentence...
