Thank you so much. I have fought this lonely battle on FR for almost nineteen years with no allies (I had one once, but he's long since gone), since all the creationists here are Protestant and the non-Protestants are all evolutionists. Some of the Catholic FReepers actually claim that I am slandering Catholicism and that they are themselves literalist creationists, but they adamantly refuse to get involved on any thread in which Catholicism is shown to be at war with Biblical integrity.
While literalist creationism is not universal among Orthodox Jews it is still normative, and I have books and tables from Jewish publishers that assume the simple historical truth of the Biblical narrative, but for some reason they refuse to take part in the "culture wars" on Genesis--perhaps because, in their mind, "creationism" is identified with chrstianity (specifically Fundamentalist Protestantism) and don't want to be associated with it. More's the pity, since there are innumerable things to be associated with than that. But unlike the Orthodox Jews, who still adhere to the Biblical chronology quietly among themselves, the ancient chrstian churches actively attack it as a d@mnable Protestant error.
> But unlike the Orthodox Jews, who still adhere to the Biblical chronology quietly among themselves, the ancient chrstian churches actively attack it as a d@mnable Protestant error.
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible are the essence of the Written Torah. They alone contain all of the Divine precepts. Nothing may be added to them. Nothing may be subtracted from them. Even genuine prophets cannot alter anything in the Five Books of Moses. They are the ultimate criterion. (The Divine Code by Rabbi Moshe Weiner, Ask Noah International, 2011, p 38). Since the Five Books of Moses are the source of all Torah commandments, of course heretics will attack them.