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Do Genesis literalists also take the rest of the Bible literally?

How much of the Bible do you take literally?

  • All of it, including the examples below

  • Some of it, including Genesis, but not the examples below

  • None of it, the Bible was written in a different cultural and social setting

  • Most of it, but neither Genesis nor the examples below


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CabVet

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that God cleaned up and left a note so you know truth when you read His note.

And who says the note is from God? Oh, I know that one...

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Circular logic at its best.
 
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that God cleaned up and left a note so you know truth when you read His note.

Alternative hypothesis: God let everything proceed as modern science has concluded, but Satan created a phony account and called it 'Genesis'.

Tell me how you would differentiate between the two.

(PROTIP: you can't)
 
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Satan can not do anything but God let him.
According to what? The Bible? In the alternative hypothetical, Satan wrote the Bible specifically to fool men, and he invented the line about "Satan can't do anything except what God allows". In the hypothetical, Satan has much more free reign.
 
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In the alternative hypothetical, Satan wrote the Bible specifically to fool men,
Into what? the Bible portrays him as a liar.

Are you saying Satan wrote the Bible to fool us by portraying himself as a liar, when in fact he wasn't?
 
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Into what? the Bible portrays him as a liar.

Are you saying Satan wrote the Bible to fool us by portraying himself as a liar, when in fact he wasn't?

Who is to say if he's painted an accurate portrait of himself? Mind you, if he did have a hand in the Bible's composition, he certainly managed to paint God in a very bad light.
 
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Do you believe that? if not, mind if I don't, either?

I'm pointing out that you have no way of knowing it isn't true. (Actually, I'm riding on Wiccan's coattails, but I approve of the point he's making.)
 
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