[Fiji Hill]

I believe the Bible is the divinely inspired word of God. That said, I don’t take the first 11 chapters of Genesis as literal. God is revealing Himself and His relationship to His creation at a time when people believed all sorts of unscientific things. And still, those first 11 chapters are a brilliant description of the human condition. I find it sad and disappointing that people of faith will contort themselves into pretzels to make those 11 chapters literal.

Amen! Preach on!

[ealgeone]

Jesus and the writers of the OT and NT believed them to be real. Jesus should know. He was there at the beginning.