It’s possible I have made some mistakes, but if there is one mistake I do not want to countenance, it is the idea that the Lord is less than love in some manner.
That makes me heart core, not hard core. I will follow expressions of ordinary human language including metaphor in the scripture, but I won’t consent to remake it into such an “as though” allegory that its meaning becomes irreducibly vague. God wrote it with a point and God can and will read it back again. Give me good reasons for an old earth creation view — and I have seen some pretty good ones — I will not complain. Call creation a fairy tale with no abiding meaning and I say you have lost the whole point of God being in the picture and we might as well be using Grimm’s in church.
I don’t question the love of God.
I question my ability to screw it up.