“but that doesn’t mean that the goal of evolution or heliocentricity is to attack God or Christians.”
I certainly don’t feel attacked... you talk about interpretation, other of your kindred spirit throw around the words metaphor and allegory. Either way, you’re both wrong.
I won’t argue about what you believe or don’t believe. I’m sure you do believe in God. But Genesis is very, very specific and it’s not for naught. It’s a lot of wasted ink and a lot of wasted years if it does not mean what it says.
Semantics aside, you cannot get around the fact that Genesis means six literal days and that throughout the Bible the idea was carried from generation to generation.
Now if you want to argue the bible is incorrect, then I’ll go there with you. Your particular argument is no different than the atheist who claims this nation is not and never was founded to be a Christian nation. In my opinion they can argue the founders were wrong, but they cannot intelligently argue original intent.
In summation, scream it ‘til your throat is raw, but most Christians do not believe in evolution, my friend (please shoot me... I’m channeling McCain). Most Church going, Bible believing Christians believe in Creation and not Evolution. It’s the ones who do not know the scripture or were never taught it properly that believe in the desecration that is Evolution.
Now, that’s what I’m sayin’ ‘bout it brutha!.
“Semantics aside, you cannot get around the fact that Genesis means six literal days and that throughout the Bible the idea was carried from generation to generation.”
May I ask why you insist that Genesis must be an unequivocally literal account? Why is it even logical to assume that the Genesis day is 24 hours when the sun, upon which we base the concept of a 24-hour day, was not created until the fourth day? A non-believer might read Genesis and infer that God’s first act of creation was not to create Heaven and earth, but to create the concept of a 24-hour day. Additionally, how was Adam privy to the details of the 5 days of Creation that preceded his existence?
The hypothesis that the Creation account, complete with a “literal day”, was communicated from generation to generation is of little significance when you consider that the Israelites did not form the concept of a 24-hour day. The Egyptian civilization was the first civilization to divide the dawn-dusk cycle into 24 segments. The Israelites could not have know about the 24-hour cycle until they were in captivity under the Egyptians, which was many generations after Adam.
Also, I would like to see the statistics to back up your assertion that “Most Church going, Bible believing Christians believe in Creation and not Evolution.”
Thank you for you time.