“And if we choose not to believe that, there is no particular reason to believe anything else in the Bible, including the life and resurrection of Christ.”
Universe in 7 days,, if you don’t believe that, it doesn’t follow logically that you should throw it away. It only means you arent a candidate for an inerrency branch of Christianity. This means you could fit easily into the huge majority of Christians who recognize that the Bible contains a lot of allegory, poetry, and symbolism.
On Free Republic at least, I am convinced that those Christians are increasingly zot targets.
I”m not really going to jump into the middle of this because I’m not well enough versed and I’d get slaughtered, however, if you don’t believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, then you can start picking and choosing, and therein lies a real problem. Whether the earth was made in 7 days or not isn’t the problem, but there are other things that certainly would be (the literal resurrection for instance or if Jesus is the literal Son of God).
But, as I said, I’m just tossing things out, I’m not qualified to really debate the issue. However, this is why the issue is so important that people get so riled up.