Ok.
Did God create that which we now call the laws of physics? Did he abide by those in creation or just make everything work right afterward?
One of the most stunning proofs of gods creation is the beauty and consistency of incredibly complicated and yet simple natures of the universe. Do you realize this universe was set in motion billions of years ago and is perfect to support our existence today against all odds? There is more awe in my mind at creation when you consider God started it billions of years ago with Devine precision and his creation is perfect t in its culmination of us.
If you want to say it was more like a magic trick in the beginning just as genisis lays it out, well then God bless you. For me that cheapens the majesty and wonder of what God is capable of.
Either the Bible is infallible, or our ability to determine it's truth is infallible. If you hold to the latter, we can judge for ourselves which parts to take, and which parts to dismiss. Thus, you get Christians so-called agreeing with abortion, homosexual marriage, et al.
Exactly right, God's Creation.
jimmyray: "Do you believe Jesus physically rose on the third day, or is that more half-truth written for ignorant first century humans?
If you can't trust Genesis or Exodus, how can you trust Matthew or Mark?"
What the Bible asserts, clearly and unequivocally, is that God created the natural realm, rules over it and, on occasion, miraculously over-rules its laws.
That is what you must believe, and indeed is what many believers experience in their own lives.
It's what makes us loyal to our Church and larger community, and provides reality necessary to accept on faith biblical accounts of other Divine Interventions.
Therefore, scientific details of how God Created are irrelevant to Faith.
Finally, death is a concept, a perception and fear, denied to lower animals, but doubtless made potential by God's "breath of life" to Adam, a potential fully manifest after our ejection from the Garden of Eden.