” Does the Bible say what you think it says? No.”
Spirited: As pointed out previously, what you “personally” believe with regard to creation, God, and the Bible depends upon your worldview presuppositions, which you refuse to define.
But though your cowardice keeps you from making known your worldview, your unrelenting attacks upon creation ex nihilo reveal that you embrace the only other option: materialism.
By embracing materialism you affirm naturalism (neo-paganism) as the foundation of your belief system. As a modern pagan you have nothing either truthful or useful to say about God’s Revelation.
It's an invention of men who want to define God. They can't and they're fools for trying. Worse, they've mislead many, but we're God-blessed to have Mr. Gutenburg and all the martyrs who died so that we could have a Bible to read for our very own self, plus an Internet to search out the truth.
Imagine an ant stumbling upon a watch. Though the ant is familiar with night and day and perhaps aware of the seasons the watch means nothing to the ant. That's man's mind to God's, yet we have the Holy Ghost and the Holy Bible and those willing to share and teach the truth.
You ask a person if its raining and they spend hours and days and months telling you everything but the actaul weather, well, something is up.