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[OPEN]Why should the Bible be about science or history?

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Pats said:
How "minority" is it? I've never been to a non YEC church
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as a rough comparison.
the mainline American Presbyterian Church, PCUSA, is about 7 million people, it is TE.

the PCA which is probably 50% oec and 50% YEC is 700K, or 1/10 of the size.
 
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Pats said:
How "minority" is it? I've never been to a non YEC church
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Come to Australia.

The overwhelming majority of Catholics and Anglicans (and I suspect Lutherans), even the "rabid conservatives" in Sydney, oppose literalism.

The Uniting church (made up of Methodists and Presbyterians) is very liberal and would regard very few parts of the Bible as historical - let alone Genesis.

The Baptist church is heading in a similar direction. My uncle-in-law, who is a Baptist-trained theologian, told me that all but one Baptist theological college in the country is now theologically liberal.

And there you have > 75% of Australian Christians accounted for!! (see http://www.ncls.org.au/default.aspx?sitemapid=2232 )

Also this:


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Pats said:
How "minority" is it? I've never been to a non YEC church
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Good question.

I would be willing to concede the point, though, that most Christian theologians have accepted the historicity of figures in the Torah (like say Adam). A literal reading
of the creation account is a different argument and I find less support that position among ECF's...
 
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