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Genesis 2

4 These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, 5 when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground; 6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground-- 7 then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

Help me out here, Zulu. Is this God's idea of a trick? Do you believe that God would inspire the very first book of the Bible to be one of fairy tales or confusion?

Come on now. Is that sound Christian understanding?

Help me out here, Zulu. Is this God's idea of a trick? Do you believe that God would inspire the very first book of the Bible to be one of fairy tales or confusion?

Do you have trouble distinguishing between metaphors and falsehoods? How about parables? Are they literally true?

The Bible is a religous text, not a geological or biological tome.

Even God would have a hard time explaining evolution, cosmology, stratigraphy, genetics, etc, to a tribe of stone age shepherds. He told them what it was necessary for them to know at the moment. He didn't unnecessarily digress or expand on what was his main message, and that was a religious one, not a scientific one.