Jesus, who is the Truth, spoke of events like creation, the Flood, Jonah, etc as if they were real, true events that happened.
If He is truth, then they did as He said.
If they didn’t happen the way He said, then He lied.
Which is it?
Do you believe a Jesus who tells the truth, or lies to His followers about OT events?
>>Jesus, who is the Truth, spoke of events like creation, the Flood, Jonah, etc as if they were real, true events that happened.
If He is truth, then they did as He said.
If they didn’t happen the way He said, then He lied.<<
Who are you to judge the Lord’s words? Jesus spoke in parables and set his phrases and terms to that of his audience. Was there really a Pharisee? A prodigal son? Or were those amalgams created to make a point?
Jesus was not in the position to say “well, billions of years ago, stochastic processes began to..” any more than he was able to say “I am the way, the truth and a phenomenon that is made up of particles yet comes in waves...”
The Bible is to teach us our relationship with God and each other. It is not a science text.
And unless and until you have read the Bible in its original languages you can’t use it as a literal source, since you can’t literally quote it. The King James is probably the least literal of all interpretations. I mean, you probably haven’t even read the Old Testament in Hebrew (not its original language but only 1 generation off for the most part), so how can you possible know what it literally says?
I take the Bible as a life guide and for that there is no better reference. It doesn’t matter what a Yom is, when God tells me He created the Universe. The point isn’t the HOW, it is the WHY.