Indeed! Scripture
isn't about trivialities like whether the Earth was
x (a certain exact amount) years old at a certain point in events...
Instead of being about the truly unimportant question of how old the Earth is when event Y happened, the Bible is about
Life or Death (it's an emergency: life or death, bring the electric paddles and save the dying person, now! -- for all of us for eternity!
That's why the Word is given -- to rescue us from our lost sinfulness and bring us reconciled to God. (so of course the bible isn't about chemistry or geology!...)
So, in Genesis chapter 1, if we can read with a truly open listening,
it changes your brain in a wonderful way (I'm just testifying about what has happened to me factually, and repeatedly) -- it
alters a person.
So that they enter a new state of mind.
And become better ready to hear the wonderfully
deep and profound lessons in Genesis chapters 2-4 and beyond....
So, as you read Genesis 1 with true listening, you hear a profoundly powerful message -- that God has made Earth a "good", and a "very good" home for us -- this is repeated 7 times....
And if you can just hear that, it changes your heart.
Makes you better ready to listen to the Word....
Which is 50 times...no, one millions times more important than how old the Earth is (which is a comparative triviality, and that's why the bible never tell us that, just like it doesn't go into details about how chemistry works or how to build a bridge or whatever else random topics that are very useful, but all that other stuff (engineering, chemistry, how to make a bow, the age of Earth, how biology works, etc.) would not help bring us to God.
The Bible is meant to bring us out of our sinfulness, make us repent, and turn to God confessing our sins, to save our souls for
eternity....
So, to help anyone that isn't already turned fully to Christ in faith for the remission of their sins, there is only one saving message, alone.
As Romans confirms to us, and Christ also:
3 Since
they [Israel and all of humanity....] did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. 4 Christ is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.
5 Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.” 6 But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’” (that is, to bring Christ down) 7 “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim:
9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. 11 As Scripture says, “Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame.” 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, 13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?
And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”
16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
17 Consequently,
faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.
Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they...
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As Christ confirms in many ways in the gospels --
only He, alone, is the Way to God....
No other message saves, we literally read.