The take away is that God created us. The rest doesn’t matter until you get to the New Testament. Except as background info.
The creation account can be accepted as a story that we don’t have enough information to decipher into something corresponding to modern science.
The problem comes when trying to turn it into science.
In the meantime, the personal care that the Creator put into the creation gets utterly missed over the question about who has the best “scientific” view of it.
The bible warns that knowledge (Greek: scientia) puffs up but love edifies.
God did not ask us to figure out our lives with science.
Oh really? I thought you believed that He just sat back and watched us evolve for billions of years.
I would have to disagree with you, that the OT is unnecessary. It is filled with prophecy about Jesus and the end times. It is the Word of God. That alone gives it its worth. Jesus, as well as the authors of the New Testament, quoted the OT. Jesus said, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.” He also said, “ Man does not live by bread alone, but by EVERY word (my emphasis), that proceeds from the mouth of God.” The Apostle Paul said, “Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. The Apostles only had the acts and words of Jesus, and the OT from which to preach and study. One main reason they believed in Jesus, was from their knowledge of OT scriptures. When Nathaniel asked, “Can any good thing come from Nazareth?”, the ‘good thing’ to which he was referring, was the Messiah, and the reason he posed the question, is because the OT said the Messiah comes from Bethlehem. Paul and the other authors of the NT, based their teachings not only by the words of Jesus, but by the scriptures they were taught from their youth.