Well at least we can finally dispense with the "George Bush is a Christian" myth.
Well, pretty much every Christian Scholar agrees that not everything in the Bible is literally true. A great deal of it is literally true, but not all. Doesn't mean the rest is false, since the Bible contains several different writing styles.
As for evolution being compatible with the Bible, I disagree with Bush.
Look a little deeper and you'll probably find that these "Christian scholars" also deny the divinity of Christ, deny His virgin birth, death, and resurrection, deny what He has said about the wretched condition of man and the fact that man's only hope of reconciliation with God is through the person of Jesus Christ; in other words "Christian scholars" who claim that the very foundation of Christianity is a lie.
God warned us about these people:
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. (Matthew 7:15)
2 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 and every spirit that does not confess that[a] Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. (1 John 4:2,3)
Not everyone who claims to be a Christian is one. And the easiest way to tell is if a person denies the Word of God then he probably doesn't know God.
“Well, pretty much every Christian Scholar agrees that not everything in the Bible is literally true.”
With the same confidence you declare this - I will say there are just as many “Christian Scholars” who have attempted to either elevate themselves to God’s level, or have attempted to bring God down to man’s level.
I can assure you based in belief in what God’s word says on this subject - that none of these scholars best efforts will achieve their goal - mentioned above - in the end. God is not affected by the ‘brilliance’ of ‘Christian scholars’, but they certainly have an effect on those with weak faith, don’t they?
Again, those scholars in making such grandiose statments, by default then, MUST be able to tell you with 100 percent accuracy which are literal, and which are not literal meanings.
These scholars will ALWAYS add caveats to their statements:
‘This MAY be literal’, ‘that MAY NOT be literal’. They are too intelligent to commit their statement as fact, because they have doubts in the very things they proclaim.
And of course, they would never want to be held totally accountable for their false statements or lack of complete faith - if they found out they were wrong.............