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Do You Believe in Young Earth or Old Earth?
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<blockquote data-quote="eclipsenow" data-source="post: 68081681" data-attributes="member: 274355"><p>Ignore? No! Every word of the bible is true. But not every word of the bible is literal! There's many different genres of writing in the bible, such as more creative narratives like poetry, metaphor, symbolism, narrative, apocalyptic, parable and song; and there's more literal genres like biography, history, legislative. </p><p>If the bible doesn't <em><strong>literally</strong></em> make any claims about the age of the earth, then aren't you in a crisis about nothing?</p><p>It's about understanding what Genesis actually <em>means</em>.</p><p></p><p>This is my friend Dr John Dickson's paper on the ancient understanding of Genesis 1. It's theological gold! Genesis 1 has nothing to do with HOW God made the world, and everything to do with WHY! That is, an over-reaction to Darwin's theories has distorted the modern reading of Genesis and made people read it as some kind of dry, boring, arbitrary list of what-God-did when, when it's actually closer to a highly structured poem taking us on a tour of why God knit the world together in the particular *relationships* He has put together. It's theological, not scientific. And I personally feel sorry for modern day Creationists, not just because they have to live in such terrible fear of everything 'sciencey' that indicates an old earth, but because they're missing out on the theological GOLD that is in Gensis 1 because of their literalistic reading of it!</p><p><a href="http://www.iscast.org/journal/articlespage/Dickson_J_2008-03_Genesis_Of_Everything" target="_blank">http://www.iscast.org/journal/articlespage/Dickson_J_2008-03_Genesis_Of_Everything</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="eclipsenow, post: 68081681, member: 274355"] Ignore? No! Every word of the bible is true. But not every word of the bible is literal! There's many different genres of writing in the bible, such as more creative narratives like poetry, metaphor, symbolism, narrative, apocalyptic, parable and song; and there's more literal genres like biography, history, legislative. If the bible doesn't [I][B]literally[/B][/I] make any claims about the age of the earth, then aren't you in a crisis about nothing? It's about understanding what Genesis actually [I]means[/I]. This is my friend Dr John Dickson's paper on the ancient understanding of Genesis 1. It's theological gold! Genesis 1 has nothing to do with HOW God made the world, and everything to do with WHY! That is, an over-reaction to Darwin's theories has distorted the modern reading of Genesis and made people read it as some kind of dry, boring, arbitrary list of what-God-did when, when it's actually closer to a highly structured poem taking us on a tour of why God knit the world together in the particular *relationships* He has put together. It's theological, not scientific. And I personally feel sorry for modern day Creationists, not just because they have to live in such terrible fear of everything 'sciencey' that indicates an old earth, but because they're missing out on the theological GOLD that is in Gensis 1 because of their literalistic reading of it! [URL]http://www.iscast.org/journal/articlespage/Dickson_J_2008-03_Genesis_Of_Everything[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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