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But that reinforces my point. Literal until reason to take metaphorical. Why do you take Genesis metaphorically?
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Because I'm not a literalist and it made the most sense for me to do so.[quote=whizzball1]
Well then, I'll pull out a few Bible verses to help you with this. I completely forgot about that.First of all, we know that in each of the six days, God said that "The Evening and the Morning were the nth day."A quote of Jesus in Mark 10:6: "But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female'". See how Jesus says "beginning of the creation"? This shows that God created Adam and Eve very close to the beginning of the creation, not billions of years after he created the universe.John 5:45–47: “Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”We know for certain that Moses wrote Genesis. Jesus wording here shows that we're meant to take Moses' words literally. Therefore, we are to take Genesis literally. Even if Moses didn't write Genesis, we have this:Exodus 20:11: “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.”Some, in Genesis, use the argument that day could mean multiple things. However, in this verse, the Hebrew word specifically applied to 24-hour days. So, since we are to believe the words of Moses, and Moses said that the universe was created in six literal days, then we show that Jesus himself endorsed the 6 literal day view.
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That first one could apply to primitive, hypothetical humans before Adam and Eve. Because it was Jesus in the second one, I cannot deny anything from that at all. And can you go into more detail on how the Hebrew word for day means literal, consecutive, back-to-back days?