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Subject: Infallibility of the Bible questioned. |
Bible Note: Greetings Steve! I understand where you are coming from, but your post illustrates one of my problems with accepting the historical reliability of one part of Genesis, but not the rest. How do you reconcile a real Adam and Eve with evolution? He could not have been the first man. He would simply be the most evolved man up to that point. Yet, Genesis specifically says that God created Adam directly and that he was the first man. How do you reconcile evolution with the fall of man? Were there people before Adam and Eve who did not fall? If there were others besides Adam and Eve, then are we all descended from Adam and Eve, or someone else who was alive at the time? I think you get my drift! :-) There are all sorts of problems created by the simple decision to take the creation account as non-literal. It literally impacts many other doctrines. Worse, it is based entirely upon a "scientific world-view" which has been shown over history to be inconsistent and falliable. Remember when we thought the earth was the center of the universe! In closing, perhaps the creation account is such a hot bed of conflict precisely because it is so important! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran aka Indiana Tim! :-) |