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"The issue is Christ, not an interpretation of Genesis"

Genesis is the foundation of the Christian faith. If Genesis is open to interpretation, then the entire Bible is nothing more than a story book, and Jesus Christ ranks right up there with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Do I sometime find it hard to believe that there is an all powerful God that created the heavens and earth? Yes, of course. But I also believe that Jesus Christ was the perfect Son of God, died on the cross, was buried, rose again on the third day, and all this was done for my salvation. My faith does not allow me to seperate the parts of the Bible that I want to believe from the parts that I want to think are a nice story.

Also, without Genesis, the rest of the Bible becomes unecessary. If we are not created in God's image because he loved us and wanted us for companionship, why would he send his perfect son to die for our salvation. Why would God make that type of sacrifice to save some things that evolved out of the primordial ooze. To call yourself a Christian, but believe in evolution, is to believe that Jesus Christ died to save a group of cells that exists by chance and natural selection.