No, please clarify. I’m a lifelong Christian, lead worship at my church, and sit on the official board. Attended Christian schools my entire life (including college). Apparently though that qualifies me - in your mind - as a heathen.
I also like to use the mind and reasoning that God gifted us with, to go beyond simple ink. Fundamentally, I believe the Bible is NOT a science textbook, but a relationship manual telling about how we relate to Him, and how we are to relate to each other.
So please expound on how I am rejecting God because I accept the fact that the Bible is not to be taken as a literal work. Explain the problem. I see a timeline, and it’s quite specific! Day exists before the creation of the great light, the sun. Plants exist before the creation of the great light, the sun. If that is so, then the laws of physics - set up by God - are broken and recorded as such.
Or do you espouse that the Bible is just such a work? And as such, where is your indignation over all English and other translations?
No, the bible is not a science book - literally Thank God.
Science books have to change because they are wrong. The Word of God is not.
I’m not going to try to summarize or repeat the answers in genesis materials here, but the synopsis question is - what OTHER portions of scripture are you willing to “compromise” on?
Christ’s virgin birth? His Deity? His crucifixion and substitutional atonement? His resurrection?