[Smartaleck]

"This, combined with superficial translations of Genesis and purposeful use of these translations to divide the Church have been very effective in propagandizing many Christians."

The Bible is replete with scripture and parables yet how many discern the difference?

Biblical scholars even differ on what the "Word of God" truly is.

Did He actually write the scripture?
Did He work through others and use "man" to write the words for him?
Did He "inspire" others to write his words?

Given that the old and new testaments were written in Hebrew and Greek, later translated to Latin and still later translated to English.....each subject to the interpretation of the writer/interpretor, how can the King James Bible be taken literally?

[shubi]

"how can the King James Bible be taken literally?"

Good question.

I have been studying Genesis in the Hebrew for many years.
It does not mean what the creationists say it means.

For instance the word translated day, clearly is an indefinite period of time, as Gen 2:4 confirms. Since the Sun was not created until the fourth day, it is absurd to think the first 3 days were of a fixed 24 hr period.

The only thing on this point that goes the creationists way is the phrase "morning and evening". Since Gen 1 is Hebrew poetry, though poetry, this repetition shows that there is poetic license and a misunderstanding of what causes morning and evening to happen.